Epic lives and monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Taylor, Anna Lisa, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39800337*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Saints, teachers, princes and students
  • Forging sanctity: Hilduin of Saint-Denis and the epic Passio Dionysii
  • Glossing the imaginary: epic Vitae in the classroom
  • Classical nightmares: Christian poets and the pagan past
  • Bishops, monks and mother bees: an epic Vita at the millennium
  • Mothers and daughters, affiliation and conflict in the lives of Rictrude and Eusebia
  • Black seeds on a white field
  • St. Gallen, stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 265
  • Douai bibliotheque municipale MS 849.