"The translation is based on the version of the life preserved in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson 118, which is generally considered the closest to Capgrave's original"--Introd.
This new book redresses the balance, providing a thorough examination of the way the cult spread from the Greek-speaking lands of the Eastern Mediterranean and into Western Europe.
John Capgrave's The Life of Saint Katherine, written c. 1463 in Lynn in Norfolk, is, according to the editor, . . . the longest and most intricate Katherine legend written...
... to SaintGillesin 1120 andreportedly returned with a relic of the saint, so the buildingof the Egidienkirche inNuremberg c. ... influenced by Veit Stoß; thewings to a pupilofthe Meister des Augustineraltars (Pilz, Egidienkirche, p.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1893 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1893 Edition.
32–43; D. Rollason, 'Lists of Saints' Resting Places in Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England, 7 (1978), pp. 61–93; S.J. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults (Cambridge, ...
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From the Preface. ...The most celebrated transaction in the life of St. Katherine, and perhaps as impudent a fiction as any in the whole legendary mythology, is the story of her marriage with the divine Saviour.
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McNamara. INTRODUCTION. Bishops bulked large among the individuals singled out as saints by early Christian communities. During the persecution period, they were the natural targets for Roman officials who understood that a flock ...