Virgins and Scholars - Claire Waters
A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John
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2008Uitgever: Brepols Publishers491 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503514529ISBN-13: 9782503514529Koop dit boek tweedehands
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This collection of prose vitae of four virgins and scholars - Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria - was almost certainly copied, and the texts very likely composed, at Syon Abbey or Sheen Charterhouse in the mid-fifteenth century. The lives cover a wide range of hagiographic modes, from hagiographic romance to affective, devotional appreciation to doctrinal treatise in narrative form. From the life of Jerome, composed by a monk for his aristocratic spiritual dau...
