Article: Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England.(Book review)

Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). xvii + 256 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3986-5; 978-0-8122-3986-7. 36.00 [pounds sterling]/$55.00.

Catherine Sanok offers a twofold argument here: that late medieval female saints' lives in the English vernacular construct a contemporary feminine audience for whom the saints represented are exemplary, and that these texts encouraged reflection by authors and readers on historical continuities and differences in women's devotional practice. The book's opening chapters set out this argument: the first chapter ...

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