Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain

Eva von Contzen is Assistant Professor of Old and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture at Ruhr-Universität BochumAnke Bernau is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester

• Introduction: sanctity as literature – Eva von Contzen1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood – Kate Ash2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres – Andrew Lynch3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne - Kate Greenspan4. Modeling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late-medieval English mystical literature –Jessica Barr5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature – Helen Fulton6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority – Jennifer L. Sisk7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine – Sarah James8. Lydgate’s saintly poetics – Anke Bernau9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the ‘literary turn’ in fifteenth-century hagiography – Eva von Contzen10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager’s Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene – Tamara Atkin11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More – Anna Siebach LarsenAfterword: Calendar time in balade form – Catherine SanokBibliographyIndex

'In its individual essays and collective prod to supple analysis, Sanctity as Literature will cast a long shadow over future scholarship on hagiography, poetics, and literariness in later medieval literatures.’Cynthia Turner Camp, University of Georgia