Writing Holiness: Genre and Reception across Medieval Hagiography

Barr, Jessica

ISBN 10: 2503601987 / ISBN 13: 9782503601984

Published by Brepols Publishers, 2023

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281 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Holiness: Genre and Reception across Medieval Hagiography
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503601987
• ISBN 13: 9782503601984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Writing Holiness contributes to exciting new critical conversations in the study of medieval hagiography in Western Christianity. Recent years have seen innovative approaches to the literatures of sanctity through emergent theoretical discourses, such as disability studies and trans theory. At the same time, traditional methodologies such as manuscript studies and reception history continue to generate new perspectives on the production, circulation, and reception of the sacred textual canon. Through ten unique contributions that draw from both new and established theories and methodologies, this volume charts the development, movement, and reception of Christian hagiographic texts in localities ranging from the Iberian Peninsula to the Scandinavian Archipelago from the early to the late Middle Ages. Each chapter traces hagiographic development over generic, temporal, cultural, and linguistic boundaries, and considers the broader contours of the sacred imaginary that come into view as a result of such critically intersectional inquiry.