Title

Login

Join

Book's by Christiania Whitehead

Covers

List

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500

By: Christiania Whitehead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500

By: Christiania Whitehead

This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous and Bedan vitae, through twelfth-century ecclesiastical histories and miracle collections produced at Durham, to his late medieval appearances in Latin meditations, legendaries, and vernacular verse. Whitehead reveals the coherence of these texts as one tradition, exploring the way that ideologies and literary strategies persist across generations. An innovative addition to the literature of insular spirituality and hagiography, The Afterlife of St Cuthbert emphasises the related categories of place and asceticism. It charts Cuthbert's conceptual alignment with a range of institutional, masculine, northern, and national spaces, and examines the distinctive characteristics and changing value of his ascetic lifestyle and environment - frequently constituted as a nature sanctuary - interrogating its relation to his other jurisdictions.

Average ratings

N/A

5

0%

4

0%

3

0%

2

0%

1

0%

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108802613

ISBN 13

9781108802611

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500

By: Christiania Whitehead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500

By: Christiania Whitehead

This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous and Bedan vitae, through twelfth-century ecclesiastical histories and miracle collections produced at Durham, to his late medieval appearances in Latin meditations, legendaries, and vernacular verse. Whitehead reveals the coherence of these texts as one tradition, exploring the way that ideologies and literary strategies persist across generations. An innovative addition to the literature of insular spirituality and hagiography, The Afterlife of St Cuthbert emphasises the related categories of place and asceticism. It charts Cuthbert's conceptual alignment with a range of institutional, masculine, northern, and national spaces, and examines the distinctive characteristics and changing value of his ascetic lifestyle and environment - frequently constituted as a nature sanctuary - interrogating its relation to his other jurisdictions.

Average ratings

N/A

5

0%

4

0%

3

0%

2

0%

1

0%

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108802613

ISBN 13

9781108802611