Abstract: The late fourteenth-century Scottish Legendary narrates the stories of the saints quite differently from John Lydgate. This difference is due to a change in hagiographic narration more generally: while the Scottish compilation concentrates on developing sanctity through narrative action, Lydgate does not 'narrate' the holy but presents his audience with static reminders of his protagonists' sanctity. The lives in the Scottish Legendary are 'literary' in their subtle employment of narrative strategies, while Lydgate's hagiographic discourse can be said to constitute a break with the received strategies of hagiographic narration, a break that ultimately led to the death of the genre.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-16
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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