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

Main Author: Taylor, Anna Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • 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