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The saints' lives of Jocelin of Furness : hagiography, patronage and ecclesiastical politics / Helen Birkett.
- Title
- The saints' lives of Jocelin of Furness : hagiography, patronage and ecclesiastical politics / Helen Birkett.
- Author
- Birkett, Helen.
- Publication
- Woodbridge : York Medieval, 2010.
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- Additional Authors
- University of York. Centre for Medieval Studies.
- Description
- xii, 326 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I TEXTS -- 1. Expanding the Narrative: The Composition of the Vita S. Patricii -- 2. Compiling Female Sanctity: The Sources for the Vita S. Helenae -- 3. Restoring the Text: Jocelin's Approach to the Vita S. Kentegerni -- 4. From the Testimony of Trustworthy Men: The Interaction of Oral and Written Sources in the Vita S. Waldevi -- pt. II CONTEXTS -- 5. Irish Ecclesiastical Politics and Anglo-Norman Sponsorship: The Patronage of the Vita S. Patricii -- 6. Scottish Independence and Ecclesiastical Reform: The Vita S. Kentegerni in Context -- 7. Promoting Sanctity: The Vita S. Waldevi, Canonization and Cistercian Saintly Cults -- 8. Locating the Text: The Patrons, Sources and Historical Context of the Vita S. Helenae -- 9. Exemplary Narratives: Contemporary Reforming Discourses in Jocelin's Vitae.
- ISBN
- 9781903153338 (hbk.)
- 1903153336 (hbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library