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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.4a2q3o
- isbn: 9781783743131
- eisbn: 9791036516641
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history hagiography English translation anthology Anglo-Norman literature medieval culture grammar and glosses letters homiletic LIT004130 Medieval & Renaissance Studies DSBSujets proches
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Jane Bliss, « Hagiography », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.4a2q3o
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Passages from three saints’ lives have been chosen to represent this important corpus. They are all by women, making a neat set, but I have not attempted to compare them as specifically women’s writing, which I feel would be reductive. Instead, I am taking passages from each that differ widely in genre within the life and miracles of the saint in question. From the first, I have chosen a miracle that is not one of the saint’s own; for the second, I have focused on the writer’s historical pass...