Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England(English, Hardcover, Turner Camp Cynthia)

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Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England(English, Hardcover, Turner Camp Cynthia) is written by Turner Camp Cynthia and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1843844028 (ISBN 10) and 9781843844020 (ISBN 13).

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.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-SaxonEngland, 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.