Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Sanok, Catherine.
Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 256 pp.
- Description
- Discusses the creation of female audiences, examining LGW and other works (including WBT) to explore how saints' lives shaped literary history, thus making women "visible participants" in vernacular literary culture. Alceste is a metonym for a broader audience and a "distinctively 'feminine' response." SNT offers new perspectives on the limits and meaning of hagiographic exemplarity through the public performance of an imitation of a virgin martyr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.