Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050

Nonfiction, History, European General, Religion & Spirituality
Cover of the book Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050 by Anna Lisa Taylor, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Anna Lisa Taylor ISBN: 9781107241602
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: September 2, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Anna Lisa Taylor
ISBN: 9781107241602
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: September 2, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers and students in Western Europe in the central Middle Ages. Using philological, codicological and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.

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This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers and students in Western Europe in the central Middle Ages. Using philological, codicological and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.

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