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Paperback Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England Book

ISBN: 0268108544

ISBN13: 9780268108540

Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England

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In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints' lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and '20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently--and not only traditional...

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