Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Edith of Wilton and the Writing of Women's History; 2 Audrey Abroad: Spiritual and Genealogical Filiation in the Middle English Lives of Etheldreda; 3 Henry Bradshaw's Life of Werburge and the Limits of Holy Incorruption; 4 The Limits of Narrative History in the Written and Pictorial Lives of Edward the Confessor; 5 The Limits of Poetic History in Lydgate's Edmund and Fremund and the Harley 2278 Pictorial Cycle; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives
