Middle English Legends of Women Saints

Middle English Legends of Women Saints
Author :
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781580444224
ISBN-13 : 1580444229
Rating : 4/5 (229 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Middle English Legends of Women Saints by : Martha G Blalock

Download or read book Middle English Legends of Women Saints written by Martha G Blalock and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints' legends but continually and actively appropriated them. The collection opens with legends about two royal (or supposedly royal) women, Frideswide and Mary Magdelen, and continues with those of three popular virgin martyrs, Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria. The final portion of the collection is devoted to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.


Middle English Legends of Women Saints Related Books

Middle English Legends of Women Saints
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Martha G Blalock
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-01 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed an
Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Anne B Thompson
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-01 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is i
Women of the Gilte Legende
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Jacobus (de Voragine)
Categories: Christian women saints
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: DS Brewer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea
Virgin Martyrs
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Karen A. Winstead
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-31 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand yea
Chaste Passions
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Karen Anne Winstead
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Virgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances in art and literature, they also figure among th