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Saints and animals in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9781843833949 1843833948 9781846156724 9786612620867 1846156726 128262086X Year: 2008 Publisher: Woodbridge: Boydell press,

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A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development. The saint and animal story in medieval saints' 'Lives' has a long tradition - explored in detail here. The volume ranges from the very beginning of the genre in the Late Antique east, through the early medieval western European adaptations, including in Ireland, to the twelfth century, to its conclusion with a new assessment of Saint Francis' dealings with animals. The author argues that stories of saints and animals drew from a variety of sources, including scripture and classical literature, and also elements of folklore; they had clear spiritual meanings, which were adapted to the development of the Church, and its relationship to the people in the medieval West. Almost as soon as the genre became standardised, its appearance in saints' 'Lives' begin to show new influences rising from the fund of popular folklore. The relationship between Church and rural folklore is also explored, both through unusual examples of the genre of saint and animal story, and through a case study of twelfth-century miracle cults from the north of England. The study finishes with Saint Francis, where the social relations underpinning the tradition of the genre are shifting towards a new culture at the root of our own.

Everyday saints and the art of narrative in the South English legendary
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ISBN: 0754632938 1351938096 1315255782 1351938088 9780754632931 9781351938099 9781315255781 9781351938082 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Christian literature, English (Middle) --- English language --- Christian saints --- Christian hagiography --- Manners and customs in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Rhetoric --- History --- South English legendary --- 091 <41> --- 091 =20 --- 091:235 --- 235.3*12 --- -English language --- -Hagiography --- -235 --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Hagiology --- Saints --- 235.3*12 Hagiografie: legenden --- Hagiografie: legenden --- Germanic languages --- Canonization --- 091:235 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Engelen. Demonen. Heiligen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Engelen. Demonen. Heiligen --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Legends --- -History and criticism --- Engelen. Demonen. Heiligen --- 235 --- Legends&delete& --- South English legendary. --- Liber festivalis --- Legendary, South English --- Manners and customs in literature. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Rhetoric --- Christian saints - Legends - History and criticism --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 --- Légendiers anglais

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