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• Introduction: sanctity as literature - Eva von Contzen
• 1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood - Kate Ash
• 2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres - Andrew Lynch
• 3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne - Kate Greenspan
• 4. Modeling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late-medieval English mystical literature - Jessica Barr
• 5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature - Helen Fulton
• 6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority - Jennifer L. Sisk
• 7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave's Life of St Katherine - Sarah James
• 8. Lydgate's saintly poetics - Anke Bernau
• 9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the 'literary turn' in fifteenth-century hagiography - Eva von Contzen
• 10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager's Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene - Tamara Atkin
• 11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More - Anna Siebach Larsen Afterword: Calendar time in balade form - Catherine Sanok Bibliography Index
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This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for information about sanctity, these essays consider the ways in which sanctity - as concept and as theme - allowed writers to articulate and to develop further their 'craft' in specific ways. While scholars in recent years have turned once more to questions of literary form and technique, the kinds of writings considered in this collection - writings that were immensely popular in their own time - have not attracted the same amount of attention as more secular forms. The collection as a whole offers new insights for scholars interested in form, style, poetics, literary history and aesthetics, by considering sanctity first and foremost as literature -- .
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• What is an Academic Essay?-- Presuppositions-- Theoretical and Methodological Assumptions-- Assumptions Concerning Background Knowledge-- How is an Essay Evaluated?-- Content-- Form-- Some Reflections on How to Write an Essay-- When to Start.
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One of the greatest challenges for instructors in religious studies is the task of explaining why, in colleges and universities, the truth claims of the religions studied are not accepted, but instead a disinterested, academic approach is taken. Most instructors prefer not to address the issue directly, leaving their students to work out for themselves the difference between religious studies and the study of religion. Those who remain confused inevitably submit essays that reveal more about their religious upbringing than their ability to analyze a phenomenon objectively."A Guide to Writing Academic Essays in Religious Studies" eases the transition for undergraduate students by explaining what they need to know about writing research essays pertaining to religion. This book includes topics such as theoretical and methodological assumptions, how to locate appropriate scholarly literature, types of research essays, developing a thesis, the essentials of essay form and content, rewriting and proofreading, choosing an appropriate form of documentation, sample documentation, block quotations, gender-inclusive language, avoiding plagiarism, and meeting deadlines.This is an indispensible guide for the undergraduate instructor or student.
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One of the greatest challenges for instructors in religious studies is the task of explaining why, in colleges and universities, the truth claims of religions are not accepted or even investigated, but instead a disinterested, secular approach is taken. Most instructors prefer not to address the issue directly, leaving their students to work out for themselves the difference between religious studies and the study of religion. Those who remain confused inevitably submit essays that reveal more about their religious upbringing than their ability to analyze a phenomenon objectively. "A Guide to Writing Academic Essays in Religious Studies" eases the transition for undergraduate students by explaining what they need to know about writing research essays pertaining to religion. Topics include methodological and theoretical presuppositions of religious studies, types of research essays, locating appropriate scholarly literature, developing a thesis, the essentials of essay form and content, quotations, forms of documentation, avoiding plagiarism, gender-inclusive language, layout, style, conciseness, rewriting and proofreading, approaching ancient texts, and how to recognize and avoid bad scholarship. This guide is indispensable for students new to religious studies.
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• Getting here from there / Mary Gordon
• Bringing down the fire / David Bradley
• Writing as a means of grace / Jaroslav Pelikan
• Faith and fiction / Frederick Buechner
• A sense of the holy / Hugh Nissenson
• Meditation and poetics / Allen Ginsberg.