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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen A. Winstead (Professor of English, The Ohio State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.398kg ISBN: 9780198707042ISBN 10: 0198707045 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 07 July 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Career Religious 2: Holy Women 3: Kings and a Marshal 4: Authors and Poets 5: Polemical Anthologies 6: Fictional LivesReviewsWinstead delves deeply into English medieval life narratives , surveying a wide range of literature and subjects to examine what she calls the most interesting facets of that topic . [...] Winstead is admirably sensitive to the strong currents of fictionalization inherent to medieval life-writing, where legend, myth and historical fact were casually intermingled. * Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationKaren A. Winstead is a Professor of English at the Ohio State University. Her specialty is the literature and culture of late-medieval England, with a particular interest in gender and popular culture. She has published widely on saints' lives and on literature by, for, and about medieval women. Her monographs include John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century and Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England, and she is completing a study of saints' lives in fifteenth-century England. She has also translated and edited John Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine and translated a selection of Middle English virgin martyr legends. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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