IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1304: Repurposing Saints in Prose from Medieval England, III
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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| Organisers: | Niamh Kehoe, School of English, University College Cork Luisa Ostacchini, Wolfson College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Niamh Kehoe, School of English, University College Cork |
| Paper 1304-a | The Use of John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium at St Albans Abbey and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1304-b | 'Because certain people doubted': Adapting Problematic Saints in Prose (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1304-c | Buckland's Legendary of Women as Jesuit Textbook (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This is the third of three sessions aiming to explore how saints' narratives were repurposed, and how saints themselves were re-presented throughout medieval England. In doing so, we consider saints' lives in Old and Middle English and/or Anglo-Latin across the borders of language, time, and place, exploring how the repurposing of hagiographic narratives can reflect wider social, political, and geographical concerns and developments. This session focuses on how lives were repurposed to shape social, political, and religious identities in late medieval legendaries. Paper -a examines the use of John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium. Paper -b considers how pre-Conquest saints were used in 15th century miscellanies. Paper -c looks at how pre-Conquest saints were repurposed for English Catholic schoolboys in a late-Elizabethan legendary. |