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6. Performing the Past: Saints’ Plays and the Second Nun)s Tale
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- 1. Imitating the Past: Exemplarity and/ as History 1
- 2. Female Saints’ Lives and the Invention of a Feminine Audience 24
- 3. Fictions of Feminine Community in Bokenham’s Legendary 50
- 4. Exemplarity and England in Native Saints’ Li 83
- 5. Hagiography and Historical Comparison in the Book of Margery Kempe 116
- 6. Performing the Past: Saints’ Plays and the Second Nun)s Tale 145
- Afterword 175
- Notes 181
- Works Cited 227
- Index 247
- Acknowledgments 255
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- 1. Imitating the Past: Exemplarity and/ as History 1
- 2. Female Saints’ Lives and the Invention of a Feminine Audience 24
- 3. Fictions of Feminine Community in Bokenham’s Legendary 50
- 4. Exemplarity and England in Native Saints’ Li 83
- 5. Hagiography and Historical Comparison in the Book of Margery Kempe 116
- 6. Performing the Past: Saints’ Plays and the Second Nun)s Tale 145
- Afterword 175
- Notes 181
- Works Cited 227
- Index 247
- Acknowledgments 255
