Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature Charles Weedon sources: texts composed or assembled

sources: texts composed or assembled by its adherents

and answers a series of increasingly detailed questions in the series format

as having temporal "rhythms"

Based on contemporary and historical ethnographic material

especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality

Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature Charles Weedon sources: texts composed or assembledThis book visits the fact that, in the pre modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in