Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107030503)

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.

Author: Anna Lisa Taylor
ISBN-10: 1107030501
ISBN-13: 9781107030503
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2013
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d