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Richard F. Johns Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Lege (Hardback). RICHARD F. JOHNSON is Assistant Professor of English at William Rainey Harper College. Format: Hardback. Author: Richard F. Johnson. Language: English. Publisher: The Boydell Press. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Further DetailsTitle: Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend Condition: New ISBN-10: 1843831287 Format: Hardback Author: Richard F. Johnson EAN: 9781843831280 ISBN: 9781843831280 Publisher: The Boydell Press Release Date: 07/15/2005 Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Society & Culture, Language & Reference Description: First comprehensive study of the representations of St Michael in the liturgy, literature, and iconography of the period.The cult and legends of St Michael the archangel were widespread in medieval England, and this book - the first full-length study of the subject - offers a comprehensive examination of their genesis and diffusion. Part I identifies and analyses the concerns, conflicts, and roles with which St Michael is associated, from scriptural and apocryphal literature through to the homiletic literature of the medieval period. Part II begins with a discussion of thevernacular recensions of the popular account of the archangel's earthly interventions, and goes on to survey the legendary accounts in Old English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English of the archangel and his roles as guardian, intercessor, psychopomp, and warrior-angel follows. The Appendices contain the first English translation of the archangel's hagiographic foundation-myth; an annotated bibliographical list and motif index of textual materials relating to the archangel; and an essay on the iconographic representations of the archangel in medieval England. RICHARD F. JOHNSON is Assistant Professor of English at William Rainey Harper College. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Item Weight: 452g Release Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
