The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture) - Image 1

£61.46

Manchester University Press The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Name: The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
Brand: Manchester University Press
Price: 61.46 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthologies

Same price for 8 weeks. Today is much like next week.

£61 for 55 days straight · last change was Dec 2025

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 594 days • 594 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 594 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £21 (358 days, 60.3%)

Price range: £21 - £80

Price levels: 4 different prices over 594 days

Description

This is the first book-length study of the late-fourteenth-century Scottish Legendary, the only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland. The fifty saints' legends are remarkable for their narrative art: the enjoyment of reading the legends is heightened, while didactic and edifying content is toned down. This study scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness and the functions of telling the lives of the saints. Focusing on the role of the narrator, the depiction of the saintly characters, their interiority, as well as temporal and spatial parameters, the author demonstrates that the Scottish poet has adapted the traditional material to the needs of an audience versed in reading romance and other secular genres. The legends of the saints are 'secularised' in their narrative design and the emphasis put on aspects such as familial conflict and interpersonal tensions. The Scottish compilation is placed within the hagiographic landscape of medieval Britain: while undoubtedly bearing similarities to other vernacular saints' legends such as the South English Legendary or Osbern Bokenham's legends, it ultimately follows its own agenda of popularising the hagiographic tales. The implications of the Scottish poet's narrative strategies are scrutinised also with respect to the Scottishness of the legendary. This study will be of interest to students and academics interested in late medieval narrative, the legends of the saints, and the intersections of secular and religious literature in medieval Britain.

Product Specifications

Brand: Manchester University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0719095964
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Anthologies
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 May 2016
Listed Since: 07 November 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Manchester University Press The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Same price for 8 weeks. Today is much like next week.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Rethinking the South English Legendaries (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Medieval Narratives Between History & Fiction: From the Centre to the Periphery of Europe, c. 1100-1400

Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary

A Legend of Holy Women: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women: 0001 (Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture)

Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience: 3 (Knowledge Communities)

Saints and their Legacies in Medieval Iceland: 9 (Studies in Old Norse Literature)

The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England (Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief)

Marie de France: A Critical Companion

Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham

Wace, the Hagiographical Works: The Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas. Translated with Introduction and Notes by ... Texts Included: 169 (Texts and Sources)

Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present: Truth, Tradition, and Translation (Studies in Celtic History)

Paris Et Vienne: 38 (Textes Litteraires Du Moyen Age)

Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)

Historische Narratologie der Figur: Studien zu den drei Artusromanen des Pleier: 152 (Hermaea. Neue Folge, 152)

Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts (The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe)

The Saints' Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics

Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Oxford English Monographs)

English Saints in the Medieval Liturgies of Scandinavian Churches

Making of Christian Myths in the Pheriphery of Latin Christendom (ca 1000-1300)

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature: Perceptions of Self and the Other

History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis: Essays on Bede, Adomnán and Thomas Becket: 1078 (Variorum Collected Studies)

Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature: Perceptions of Self and the Other

Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature