RT Review
T1 The Legends of the Holy Harlots: Thaïs and Pelagia in Medieval Spanish Literature. By Andrew M. Beresford
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 59
IS 1
SP 392
OP 393
A1 Ward, Benedicta
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783723106
AB This study of the reception of part of the literature of the monastic world of the fourth century in Spanish vernacular versions of the fourteenth century is full of interest. It concentrates on Thaïs and Pelagia, two notable converts, accounts of whose lives, along with those of Mary of Egypt and Maria the niece of Abraham, circulated in Greek and Latin a thousand years before these translations were made., The Spanish versions here discussed were based on the Latin summaries of the Dominican Jacobus de Voragine, in his Golden Legend, a book designed for a wide audience and of use especially to preachers. This brought the material right out of the lay world of early monasticism into the clerical ethos of the fourteenth century and the changes this caused to the texts are significant.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fln032