Lifelines: Tracing Organic Vitalities in Sacred and Secular Biography.
- Author / Editor
- Har, Patricia Rochford.
Lifelines: Tracing Organic Vitalities in Sacred and Secular Biography.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Cornell University, 2011. Fully accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30706 (accessed April 4, 2026).
- Physical Description
- vii, 250 pp.
- Description
- Explores "what constitutes 'life' in hagiographical literature" and medieval life-writing in general, focusing on "philosophical and organic categories of life" rather than "political, social, and ecclesiastic content." Assesses Walter Daniel's "Life of Aelred of Rievaulx," animal encounters in the "South English Legendary," "thing power" in "Pearl" and SNT, and enlivening relationships in MkT (Cenobia) and "Piers Plowman."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale
Monk and His Tale