The Scottish Legendary

The Scottish LegendaryAuthor: Eva von Contzen ISBN: 9780719095962 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 22 Apr 2016 Pages: 280 Format: Hardback This is the first book length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the functions of

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