Medieval Saints' Lives : The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography
by Campbell, EmmaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-11-20
Publisher(s): Ds Brewer
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Summary
The significance of Old French hagiography in current theoretical debates in medieval studies and the humanities.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations and Tables | p. vi |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Gift | |
| The Gift, Sacrifice and Social Economy | p. 25 |
| The Gender of the Gift | p. 51 |
| Kinship | |
| Incest and Life at the Limits of the Social | p. 71 |
| Marriage and Queer Desire | p. 96 |
| Community | |
| Textual Community | p. 121 |
| Queer Community | p. 149 |
| Manuscripts | |
| The Campsey Manuscript (London, BL, Additional 70513) | p. 181 |
| Oxford, Bodleian, Canonici Miscellaneous 74 | p. 205 |
| Conclusion | p. 223 |
| Tables | p. 231 |
| Appendices | |
| Descriptions of the manuscripts referred to in Chapters Seven and Eight | p. 235 |
| Complete list of rubrics in the Oxford MS version of the Poeme moral | p. 238 |
| Passages transcribed from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici, Miscellaneous 74 | p. 240 |
| Saints' Lives | p. 242 |
| Bibliography | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 269 |
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