Saints and Monsters is what one would hope for a book of its kind insofar as its sophisticated engagement with theory is everywhere also an engagement with the literary object.’ - Brian J. Its author, Huw Grange, makes a simple inversion that rights a chronological wrong: saints are not the comic-book superheroes of the Middle Ages rather today’s superheroes continue in the medieval saints’ tradition of extraordinary corporality. ‘This well-crafted book captures the goodwill of its audience from page one.a considerable accomplishment.’ - Luke Sunderland, French Studies 72.3, July 2018, 428-29 ‘The author moves with an impressive lightness of touch across a huge range of versions of four saints’ lives - those of Margaret, George, Honorat, and Enimia - covering verse and prose, and Latin, French, and Occitan, in mostly unpublished manuscript versions.
Huw Grange is Junior Research Fellow in French at Jesus College, Oxford.
#The moving word french medieval manuscripts in cambridge series#
Examining a series of biographies of Sts Margaret, George, Honorat and Enimia – some of them previously unknown to scholarship – Huw Grange argues that the extraordinary bodies of medieval French and Occitan hagiography mutate in relation to a range of shifting historical, cultural and geographical imperatives.
Saints and Monsters draws on notions of the 'sublime' and the 'abject' to explore the role played by these holy and unholy bodies in community formation.
In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range.įrom rubbery martyrs to wraith-like ascetics, and from pestilential dragons to troublesome giants, the bodies that fascinated audiences of saints' lives during the Middle Ages increasingly inform theoretical debates in medieval studies concerning corporeality. ISBN: 978-1-78 (paperback, 30 September 2018) Īccess online: French Poetry student-priced
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