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Women of the Gilte Legende

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Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917711
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Gilte Legende written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints spoke passionately about their convictions and defended their faith and their bodies to the death. For over 400 years, these amazing vernacular stories have been inaccessible to a wider audience. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "ryght hooly virgins", who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; "holy mothers", who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the 'repentant sinners', who convert and voice their defiance against a society that demanded silence in women; and the "holy transvestites", who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation. Their lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, academic and non-academic, forcing a re-examination of women's roles in the medieval period. LARISSA TRACY is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Series editor JANE CHANCE

Gilte legende

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Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilte legende written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gilte legende

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Author : Jacobus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Gilte legende written by Jacobus and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The South English Legendary, Gilte Legende and Golden Legend

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Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The South English Legendary, Gilte Legende and Golden Legend written by Manfred Görlach and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cult of St Swithun

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Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198131830
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of St Swithun written by Michael Lapidge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the cathedral, and a vigorous publicity campaign byBishop Aethelwold (963-84), St Swithun became one of the most popular and important English saints, whose cult was widespread not only in England but also in Ireland, Scandinavia, and France. The present volume includes new and full editions of all the relevant texts - hagiographical, liturgical,and historical - in Latin, Old English, and Middle English, many of which have never been published before: these illuminate the origins and development of St Swithun's cult. No dossier of an important English saint has been published on this scale until now: the wealth of this volume sheds newlight not only on St Swithun himself, but also on the times during which his cult was at the peak of its popularity.

The Golden Legend

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Author : Jacobo di Voragine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140446487
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobo di Voragine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1229-98) attracted a huge audience across Europe. This selection of over seventy biographies ranges from the first Apostles and Roman martyrs to near-contemporaries such as St Dominic, St Francis of Assissi and St Elizabeth of Hungary. Here, witnesses to the true faith endure horrific tortures; reformed prostitutes win divine forgiveness; while other women live disguised as monks or nobly resist lustful tyrants. Lucid and compelling, The Golden Legend offers an enthralling insight into the medieval mind. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

English Birth Girdles

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Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513907
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book English Birth Girdles written by Mary Morse and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.

Flaying in the Pre-modern World

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Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844524
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Flaying in the Pre-modern World written by Larissa Tracy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.

The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins

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Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783168692
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins written by Jane Cartwright and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most popular and relic-rich of all saints’ cults in the medieval period. This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of different sources including physical remains, literary texts, artistic representations and medieval music.

A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image

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Author : Barbara Baert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405749
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image written by Barbara Baert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study reconstructs the tradition of the Legend of the True Cross in text and image, from its tentative beginnings in 4th-century Jerusalem to the culminating expression of its multi-layered cosmic content in 14th and 15th-century monumental cycles in Germany and Italy.

The Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara

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Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : Studies and Texts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and published by Studies and Texts. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. In addition, Wolf presents the Latin source text Passio Sancte Barbare . The texts are preceded by a lengthy and heavily annotated discussion of the legend's manuscripts, sources and content which also places the legend within the literary and historical context of Scandinavia and Iceland.

Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain

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Author : Anke Bernau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 0719098165
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain written by Anke Bernau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for information about sanctity, these essays consider the ways in which sanctity - as concept and as theme - allowed writers to articulate and to develop further their 'craft' in specific ways. While scholars in recent years have turned once more to questions of literary form and technique, the kinds of writings considered in this collection - writings that were immensely popular in their own time - have not attracted the same amount of attention as more secular forms. The collection as a whole offers new insights for scholars interested in form, style, poetics, literary history and aesthetics, by considering sanctity first and foremost as literature

Middle English Legends of Women Saints

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Author : Martha G Blalock
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444229
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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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.

English Readers of Catholic Saints

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Author : Judy Ann Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000062333
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Readers of Catholic Saints written by Judy Ann Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications included not only illustrations and changes in the arrangement of chapters, but also the addition of lives of British saints and translated excerpts from the Bible, showing an appetite for vernacular scripture and stories about England’s past. The publication history of Caxton’s Golden Legend reveals attitudes towards national identity and piety within the context of English print culture during the half century prior to the Henrician Reformation.

New Legends of England

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Author : Catherine Sanok
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229470X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book New Legends of England written by Catherine Sanok and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Legends of England, Catherine Sanok examines a significant, albeit previously unrecognized, phenomenon of fifteenth-century literary culture in England: the sudden fascination with the Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints. Embodying a variety of literary forms—from elevated Latinate verse, to popular traditions such as the carol, to translations of earlier verse legends into the medium of prose—the Middle English Lives of England's saints are rarely discussed in relation to one another or seen as constituting a distinct literary genre. However, Sanok argues, these legends, when grouped together were an important narrative forum for exploring overlapping forms of secular and religious community at local, national, and supranational scales: the monastery, the city, and local cults; the nation and the realm; European Christendom and, at the end of the fifteenth century, a world that was suddenly expanding across the Atlantic. Reading texts such as the South English Legendary, The Life of St. Etheldrede, the Golden Legend, and poems about Saints Wenefrid and Ursula, Sanok focuses especially on the significance of their varied and often experimental forms. She shows how Middle English Lives of native saints revealed, through their literary forms, modes of affinity and difference that, in turn, reflected a diversity in the extent and structure of medieval communities. Taking up key questions about jurisdiction, temporality, and embodiment, New Legends of England presents some of the ways in which the Lives of England's saints theorized community and explored its constitutive paradox: the irresolvable tension between singular and collective forms of identity.

William Caxton and English Literary Culture

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Author : N. F. Blake
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1852850515
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book William Caxton and English Literary Culture written by N. F. Blake and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

De Sancta Dorothea

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Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888441300
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book De Sancta Dorothea written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: