How Long to Read Fifteenth-Century Lives

How Long Does it Take to Read Fifteenth-Century Lives?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Fifteenth-Century Lives by Karen A. Winstead

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently—and not only traditional virgin martyrs but also matrons and contemporary holy women. Winstead shows that this literature placed a premium on scholarship and teaching. Hagiography celebrated educators and scholars to a greater extent than ever before and became a vehicle for educating readers about Christian dogma. Focusing both on authors well known, such as John Lydgate and Margery Kempe, and on others less known, such as Osbern Bokenham and John Capgrave, Winstead argues that the values promoted by fifteenth-century hagiography helped to shape the reformist impulses that eventually produced the Reformation. Moreover, these values continued to influence post-Reformation hagiography, both Protestant and Catholic, well into the seventeenth century. In exploring these trends in fifteenth-century hagiography, identifying the factors that contributed to their emergence, and tracing their influence in later periods, Fifteenth-Century Lives marks an important contribution to revisionary scholarship on fifteenth-century literature. It will appeal to students and scholars of late medieval English literature and late medieval religion.

How long is Fifteenth-Century Lives?

Fifteenth-Century Lives by Karen A. Winstead is 259 pages long, and a total of 67,081 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fifteenth-Century Lives Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Fifteenth-Century Lives aloud.

What Reading Level is Fifteenth-Century Lives?

Fifteenth-Century Lives is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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