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Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Women in literature --- Sex role in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Mary, --- In literature --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- In literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Women in literature - History - To 1500 --- Sex role in literature - History - To 1500 --- Maria Deipara --- Moyen Age --- Mary, - Mother of Jesus Christ - In literature --- Mary, - Mother of Jesus Christ

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Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England-the Lives of female saints-and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation-exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. -- Book jacket

Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- Communities --- Group identity --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- History --- Biography --- Early works to 1800. --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Saints --- Canonization --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Community --- Social groups --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Christian saints - England - Biography - Early works to 1800 --- Christian saints - Legends - Early works to 1800 --- Communities - England - History - To 1500 --- Group identity - England - History - To 1500 --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Hagiographie --- Angleterre --- Légendier anglais --- Legenda aurea --- Wenefreda v. m. in Wallia --- Ursula et soc. vv. mm.

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Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England-the lives of female saints-and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation-exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity-the repeated injunction to imitate the saints-not simply as a prescriptive mode of reading but as an encouragement to historical reflection. With groundbreaking originality, she argues that late medieval writers and readers used religious narrative, and specifically the legends of female saints, to think about the historicity of their own ethical lives and of the communities they inhabited. She explains how these narratives were used in the fifteenth century to negotiate the urgent social concerns occasioned by political instability and dynastic conflict, by the threat of heresy and the changing status of public religion, and by new kinds of social mobility and forms of collective identity. Her Life Historical also offers a fresh account of how women came to be visible participants in late medieval literary culture. The expectation that they formed a distinct audience for saints' lives and moral literature allowed medieval women to surface in the historical record as book owners, patrons, and readers. Saints' lives thereby helped to invent the idea of a gendered audience with a privileged affiliation and a specific response to a given narrative tradition.

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Godsdienst en literatuur --- Latijnse filologie [Middeleeuwse en moderne ] --- Latin philology [Medieval and modern ] --- Philologie latine medievale et moderne --- Religion and literature --- Religion et littérature --- -Literature --- Literature and religion --- Literature --- History --- -Moral and religious aspects --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- English philology --- Latin philology, Medieval and modern. --- History and criticism. --- -History --- -Religion and literature --- Latin philology, Medieval and modern --- English philology, Middle --- Middle English philology --- History and criticism --- Moral and religious aspects --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism. --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism. --- English philology - Middle English, 1100-1500. --- CHRISTIAN LITERATURE --- ENGLISH PHILOLOGY --- LATIN PHILOLOGY --- RELIGION AND LITERATURE --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 --- PIERS PLOWMAN --- MIDDLE ENGLISH --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- LATIN --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500

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Kempe, Margery --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Christian women --- Mysticism --- Feminism and literature --- Dissenters, Religious --- Women and literature --- History and criticism --- Religious life --- History --- Kempe, Margery, --- 091 KEMPE, MARGERY --- 820 "14" KEMPE, MARGERY --- 091 =20 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--KEMPE, MARGERY --- Engelse literatuur--?"14"--KEMPE, MARGERY --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 820 "14" KEMPE, MARGERY Engelse literatuur--?"14"--KEMPE, MARGERY --- 091 KEMPE, MARGERY Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--KEMPE, MARGERY --- Literature --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- Women, Christian --- Women --- Women authors --- Christian literature [English ] (Middle) --- England --- To 1500 --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Dissenters [Religious ] --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Christian women - Religious life - England - History - To 1500 --- Mysticism - England - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Feminism and literature - England - History - To 1500 --- Dissenters, Religious - England - History - To 1500 --- Women and literature - England - History - To 1500 --- Kempe, Margery, - b. ca. 1373. - Book of Margery Kempe --- Literature and feminism