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Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050
2013
Overview
This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers and students in Western Europe in the central Middle Ages. Using philological, codicological and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
/ Authors and patrons -- Europe -- History
/ Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
/ Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
/ Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
/ Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
/ Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
/ Europe
/ History
/ Monasticism and religious orders
/ Monasticism and religious orders -- Biography
/ Monks' writings -- History and criticism
/ Poetics
/ Poetics -- History -- To 1500
/ To 1500
ISBN
1107030501, 9781107030503
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