Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I - Veronica O'Mara
A Study of the ‘Lyves and Dethes’ in Cambridge University Library, MS
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2023Uitgever: Brepols Publishers398 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503545513ISBN-13: 9782503545516Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique prose legendary almost entirely of female saints, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns. The manuscript, which also has varied post-medieval items, is written in one hand probably dating from c. 1480 to c. 1510. This previously unstudied Middle English collection features twenty-two universal and native saints, both common (like John the Baptist and thelthryth) and rare (such as Wihtburh and Domitilla). These texts are dependen...
