Confessional Discourse in an Old English Life of St Margaret
- Title:
- Confessional Discourse in an Old English Life of St Margaret
- Author:
- Frederick, J. A.
- Location:
- Morgantown
- Notes:
- CCCC MS 303 A study of direct speech in Old English prose lives of St Margaret. The texts studied are in the mid-eleventh-century BL MS Cotton Tiberius A. III, and the mid-twelfth-century CCCC MS 303. Argues that the confessional language of the text emphasizes Margaret’s sanctity but also contains a parodic or exaggerated element, passim
- Editor:
- Magennis, H. and Wilcox, J.
- Pages:
- 115–131
- Book Title:
- The Power of Words. Anglo-Saxon Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg on his Seventieth Birthday
- Reference Type:
- Book section
- Manuscript:
- fr670md2824