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Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenthe-Century England The Work of Osbern Bokenham
by Delany, Sheila
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Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author!. *Signed by author on half-title pg.* Minimal cover wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. In Impolitic Bodies Delany breaks important ground in fiteenth-century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. Delany examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, never before written on at length, and fully explores the relations of history and literature in the particularly turbulent period in English history, beginning with "The Wars of the Roses" and during the "Hundred Years War." Delany examines the first collection of all female saints' lives in any language: Legends of Holy Women composed by Bokenham between 1443 and 1447. The book is organized around the image of the body - a medieval procedure becoming popular once again in current attention to the social construction of the body. One emphasis is Bokenham's relation to the body of English literature, particularly Chaucer, the symbolic head of the fifteenth century. Another emphasis is a focus on the genre of saints' lives, particularly female saints' lives, with their striking use of the body of the saint to generate meaning.Finally, the image of the body politic, the controlling image of medieval political thought is here, and Bokenham's means to examine the political and dynastic crises of fifteenth-century England. Delany uses these three major concerns to explain the literary innovation of Bokenham's Legend, and the larger and political importance of that innovation..
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- Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenthe-Century England The Work of Osbern Bokenham
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- Delany, Sheila
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- Paperback
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- 0195109899
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- 9780195109894
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- Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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- Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
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- Osbern Bokenham, England
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