Middle English Legends of Women Saints

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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This collection of Middle English hagiographies presents readers with women saints’ lives in multiple retellings from the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Frideswide of Oxford was the Anglo-Saxon abbess of a well-endowed monastery who is presented as a victim of male persecution. Mary Magdalen’s story touches upon feminine authority while also offering three paradigms of sanctity—the repentant sinner, apostle, and contemplative—which could be emulated by both men and women. The virgin martyr legends of Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria present these women as challengers to political tyrants. Finally, Anne’s vita popularized a new type of sanctity of holy motherhood that was not miraculously virginal but biologically and maritally typical. Sherry Reames introduces readers to relatively obscure female-centered hagiographies, the majority of which have never before been published or have not been edited since the nineteenth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-03-01
Mått:178 x 254 x 21 mm
Vikt:698 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Antal sidor:322
Förlag:Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN:9781580440462

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Mer om författaren

Sherry Reames is Professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsGeneral IntroductionGeneral BibliographyAbbreviationsI. The Legend of St. Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal AbbessIntroduction and Select BibliographyShorter South English Legendary Life of St. FrideswideExplanatory NotesTextual NotesLonger South English Legendary Life of St. FrideswideExplanatory NotesTextual NotesII. The Legend of Mary Magdalen, Penitent and ApostleIntroduction and Select BibliographyEarly South English Legendary Life of Mary MagdalenExplanatory NotesTextual NotesJohn Mirk, Sermon on St. Mary MagdalenExplanatory NotesTextual NotesMary Magdalen, from Speculum SacerdotaleNotesIII. Three Popular Legends of Virgin Martyrs(a) Margaret of AntiochIntroduction and Select BibliographyStanzaic Life of MargaretExplanatory NotesTextual NotesJohn Mirk, Sermon on St. MargaretExplanatory NotesTextual NotesJohn Lydgate, "Lyfe of Seynt Margarete"Explanatory NotesTextual Notes(b) Katherine of AlexandriaIntroduction and Select BibliographyStanzaic Life of KatherineExplanatory NotesTextual NotesJohn Mirk, Sermon on St. KatherineExplanatory NotesTextual NotesSt. Katherine, from Speculum SacerdotaleNotes© Christina of BolsenaIntroduction and Select BibliographyWilliam Paris, Life of St. ChristinaExplanatory NotesTextual NotesIV. Legends of St. Anne, Mother of the Virgin MaryIntroduction and Select BibliographyJohn Mirk, Sermon on the Conception of the Virgin MaryExplanatory NotesTextual NotesJohn Mirk, Sermon on St. AnneExplanatory NotesTextual NotesOsbern Bokenham, Life of St. AnneExplanatory NotesTextual NotesGlossary