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Impolitic Bodies - Poetry, Saints And Society In Fifteenth Century England - The

Impolitic Bodies - Poetry, Saints And Society In Fifteenth Century England - The Work Of Osbern Bokenham Paperback - 1998

by Delany, Sheila

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In a pathbreaking new inquiry into 15th-century cultural studies, leading medievalist Sheila Delany examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham to fully explore the relationship between history and literature in a particularly turbulent period in English history. Illustrated.

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Oxford University Press, 1998. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. xii+236pp, 6 b/w illustrations, 8 text figs, index, a nice fine copy. New Study of the work of an English Augustinian Friar, an ardent Yorkist & a gifted poet, on the eve of the Wars of the Roses. The book concentrates on one particular poem, written in 1447, 'The Legend of Holy Women' narrating the lives of thirteen legendary female saints. The first such all-female work in English.
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  • Title Impolitic Bodies - Poetry, Saints And Society In Fifteenth Century England - The Work Of Osbern Bokenham
  • Author Delany, Sheila
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 56528
  • ISBN 9780195109894 / 0195109899
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 6.12 x 0.69 in (23.29 x 15.54 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 1400
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Body, Human, in literature, Great Britain - History - Lancaster and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97040311
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.2

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About the author

Sheila Delany is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is the author of such books as Chaucer's House of Fame: The Politics of Skeptical Fideism, The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Writing Woman, Medieval and Modern.

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