Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary

個数:
電子版価格
¥8,697
  • 電書あり

Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary

  • 在庫がございません。海外の書籍取次会社を通じて出版社等からお取り寄せいたします。
    通常6~9週間ほどで発送の見込みですが、商品によってはさらに時間がかかることもございます。
    重要ご説明事項
    1. 納期遅延や、ご入手不能となる場合がございます。
    2. 複数冊ご注文の場合、分割発送となる場合がございます。
    3. 美品のご指定は承りかねます。
  • 【入荷遅延について】
    世界情勢の影響により、海外からお取り寄せとなる洋書・洋古書の入荷が、表示している標準的な納期よりも遅延する場合がございます。
    おそれいりますが、あらかじめご了承くださいますようお願い申し上げます。
  • ◆画像の表紙や帯等は実物とは異なる場合があります。
  • ◆ウェブストアでの洋書販売価格は、弊社店舗等での販売価格とは異なります。
    また、洋書販売価格は、ご注文確定時点での日本円価格となります。
    ご注文確定後に、同じ洋書の販売価格が変動しても、それは反映されません。
  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 240 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780754632931
  • DDC分類 820.923

Full Description

Anne Thompson here gives the fullest account and explanation to date of the diversity of the more than sixty manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a late thirteenth-century collection of lively verse lives of saints, in a southern English dialect. The importance of the SEL to hagiographic and cultural studies has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years. Without denying the legendaries' religious purpose, this book looks at the way SEL narratives reflect and address the complex, interwined tapestry"political, social, religious"of Edward I's England, while retaining a strong emphasis on the craft of story-telling. Thompson shows the SEL to be a fresh and exciting early example of popular vernacular literature. Firmly grounded in rural and small town life of the 1270s to 1290s in the west of England, it is uniquely significant for any understanding of that culture.

Contents

Contents: Note on transcription and translation; Introduction: Tales of the saints: Beginnings; The legend of St Hilary; Hagiography and its discontents; The art of narrative and the influence of everyday life; Writing in English: The poetry of popular instruction; The Ormulum; Cursor Mundi; Handlyng Synnne; The South English Legendary; The Art of Narrative: Narrative Beginnings: Narrative and repetition in the Ormulum; Cursor Mundi's coherent biography; The South English Legendary and the perils of originality; The uses of Romance: Romance as a generic influence; Mary Magdalen and the prince of Marseille; Isumbras and Eustace; The Isumbras romance; The Eustace legend; The idea of a collection: Sources and authors; The idea of a collection; The triumph of narrative in All Souls; The story of the buried miner; The influence of everyday life: Escaping the Virgin martyr plot; Frideswide of Oxford; Ordinary wives; The legend of Julian the Hospitaller; The legend of Clement; Conclusion: Telling stories about the world; A world of people; The natural world; Letting the tale speak; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.