Cynthia Turner Camp
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Turner Camp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia Turner |
| FAMILY NAME | Camp |
| SIGNATURE | CAMP C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6411-5814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries
The temporal excesses of dead flesh
Spatial Memory, Historiographic Fantasy, and the Touch of the Past in St. Erkenwald
This article reads the anonymous Middle English alliterative poem St. Erkenwald as a historiographic exemplum germane to contemporary scholars' concerns about the mandate to "always historicize." The poem stages upon London's polytemporal cityscape a physical encounter between the present—conversion-era Anglo-Saxon London—and an unfamiliar pagan British past embodied in the undecayed (and eventually revivified) corpse of a long-buried judge. Usin…
Inventing the Past in Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge
Henry Bradshaw's long hagiographic poem, The Life of St Werburge (before 1513), attempts to derive contemporary legitimacy for Chester Abbey from a reconstructed Mercian lineage. Werburge invents a continuous history for Bradshaw's monastic community, back to an Anglo-Saxon "golden age," through the genealogy and holy body of its patron saint, the seventh-century Mercian princess Werburgh. This article reads Werburge as a composite "poetic histor…
Spatial Memory, Historiographic Fantasy, and the Touch of the Past in St. Erkenwald
This article reads the anonymous Middle English alliterative poem St. Erkenwald as a historiographic exemplum germane to contemporary scholars' concerns about the mandate to "always historicize." The poem stages upon London's polytemporal cityscape a physical encounter between the present—conversion-era Anglo-Saxon London—and an unfamiliar pagan British past embodied in the undecayed (and eventually revivified) corpse of a long-buried judge. Usin…
Inventing the Past in Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge
Henry Bradshaw's long hagiographic poem, The Life of St Werburge (before 1513), attempts to derive contemporary legitimacy for Chester Abbey from a reconstructed Mercian lineage. Werburge invents a continuous history for Bradshaw's monastic community, back to an Anglo-Saxon "golden age," through the genealogy and holy body of its patron saint, the seventh-century Mercian princess Werburgh. This article reads Werburge as a composite "poetic histor…
The temporal excesses of dead flesh
Spatial Memory, Historiographic Fantasy, and the Touch of the Past in St. Erkenwald
This article reads the anonymous Middle English alliterative poem St. Erkenwald as a historiographic exemplum germane to contemporary scholars' concerns about the mandate to "always historicize." The poem stages upon London's polytemporal cityscape a physical encounter between the present—conversion-era Anglo-Saxon London—and an unfamiliar pagan British past embodied in the undecayed (and eventually revivified) corpse of a long-buried judge. Usin…
Looking for Holy Grandmothers in Late Medieval Nunneries
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetry (2 works)