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The life of Saint Audrey
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ISBN: 9780786426539 0786426535 Year: 2006 Publisher: Jefferson McFarland

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"Written by a woman in an age when women rarely wrote and signed by one who calls herself Marie in an epilogue strikingly similar to that of the Fables of Marie de France, the Vie seinte Audree is a late 12th or early 13th-century Anglo Norman text. "--Provided by publisher.


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St. Etheldreda queen and abbess
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Year: 1975 Publisher: Ely: Dean and chapter of Ely,

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Signs of devotion: the cult of St. Aethelthryth in medieval England, 695-1615
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ISBN: 9780271029849 0271029846 Year: 2007 Publisher: University Park. Pa Pennsylvania State University Press


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Anglo-Saxon saints lives as history writing in late medieval England
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ISBN: 1843844028 9781843844020 9781782044666 1782044663 Year: 2015 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-Saxon England, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual 'golden age' and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England's history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics. Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.


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Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: princesses, miracle workers, and their late medieval audience: the Wilton chronicle and the Wilton life of St Æthelthryth
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ISBN: 9782503528366 2503528368 9782503562759 2503562752 Year: 2009 Volume: 25 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience narrates the lives of two Anglo-Saxon princesses who were venerated as saints long after their deaths. St Edith, the daughter of King Edgar, was renowned as a patron of the arts and the church during her lifetime; her posthumous miracles included protection of Wilton Abbey and the English royal family. St Æthelthryth, who retained her virginity through not one but two royal marriages, also worked numerous miracles at her tomb at the Abbey of Ely. The poems, composed at Wilton Abbey in the early fifteenth century, allow us to see how late medieval religious women practised their devotion to early medieval women saints. The Middle English verse texts are presented here in the original and in translation with explanatory notes and glossary. A thorough introduction provides extensive contextualization and analysis of the two poems as well as description of the manuscript and its language and prosody. These primary source texts are important contributions to the study of English history, language, literature, religion, and women's studies.

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