The passion of St. Katherine of Alexandria: studies in its texts and tradition
"How and why did the story of St Katherine's passion, which did not generate a particularly exceptional devotion in Byzantium during the final centuries of the first millennium, end up transplanted to the fertile religious environment of eleventh-century Normandy? This study contends that...
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| Format: | Print Image |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
[2021]
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Medium aevum <Oxford> / Monographs (new series, volume 40)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Medium aevum <Oxford> / Monographs
new series, volume 40 |
| Further subjects: | B
Catherine of Alexandria, Saint
In literature
B Catherine - of Alexandria, Saint B Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Cult (Europe, Western) History To 1500 B 1100-1500 B Christian women saints B History B Egypt - Alexandria B Christian hagiography History To 1500 |
| Summary: | "How and why did the story of St Katherine's passion, which did not generate a particularly exceptional devotion in Byzantium during the final centuries of the first millennium, end up transplanted to the fertile religious environment of eleventh-century Normandy? This study contends that Katherine's appeal to the Normans is rooted in her relative obscurity and verisimilar resemblances to early martyrs, and that the very early texts already contain the kind of information, theatricality, and disputes that made her so appealing in the Latin and vernacular West. This book examines the early textual tradition of St Katherine which remains relatively unstudied and unknown, taking as its starting point the moment at which Katherine's story becomes legible. Through codicological and textual analysis, it illuminates the origins and relationships of the various Greek and early Latin vitae, which continue to be misunderstood in the historiography of Katherine's cult, recalibrating our knowledge of the early textual tradition of one of the most venerated intercessors of medieval Western Christianity."--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Series numbering should read: new series, XL Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of London, 2006) Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-416) and indexes |
| Physical Description: | xxv, 450 Seiten, Illustrationen, 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 1911694030 |
