Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050

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Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050 is written by Anna Lisa Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107244978 (ISBN 10) and 9781107244979 (ISBN 13).

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers and students in Western Europe in the central Middle Ages. Using philological, codicological and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.