{"product_id":"la-vie-dedouard-le-confesseur-jane-bliss-9781846319518","title":"La Vie d'Edouard Le Confesseur, by a Nun of Barking Abbey","description":"The twelfth-century\u003cem\u003e Life of King Edward the Confessor, in Anglo-Norman verse\u003c\/em\u003e, is here presented in modern English for the first time. Its author, an anonymous Nun of Barking Abbey, offers a many-faceted and absorbing portrait of the celebrated king and saint, together with legendary material found in no other version of this hagiographic narrative; there is in addition a wealth of detail about Edward's times as well as about the twelfth-century context in which the Nun was writing. The poem is thus of the greatest interest not only for literary scholars but also for historians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is arguably the earliest vernacular text known to be by a woman, and so will also be of value to scholars investigating medieval female authorship. Long neglected, perhaps because mistakenly thought to be a mere translation of Aelred of Rievaulx's \u003cem\u003eVita in Latin\u003c\/em\u003e, it proves on examination to be remarkably independent of its main source and raises questions about the freedom and originality of medieval translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Bliss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 184631951X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846319518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Jane Bliss\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent scholar working in Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Bliss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057087443199,"sku":"9781846319518","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a3ca0f1-a03d-42ca-8d87-396efa6b712b.jpg?v=1685044958","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/la-vie-dedouard-le-confesseur-jane-bliss-9781846319518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}