Middle English legends of women saints

Author(s)

• Reames, Sherry L.
• Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
• University of Rochester

Bibliographic Information

Middle English legends of women saints

edited by Sherry L. Reames ; with the assistance of Martha G. Blalock and Wendy R. Larson

（Middle English texts）

Published for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2003

• : pbk

Note

Text in English and Middle English

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• The legend of Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal Abbess
• The legend of Mary Magdalen, Penitent and Apostle
• Three popular legends of Virgin Martyrs
• Legends of St. Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints' legends but continually and actively appropriated them. The collection opens with legends about two royal (or supposedly royal) women, Frideswide and Mary Magdelen, and continues with those of three popular virgin martyrs, Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria. The final portion of the collection is devoted to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments General Introduction General Bibliography Abbreviations I. The Legend of St. Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal Abbess Introduction and Select Bibliography Shorter South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Longer South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide Explanatory Notes Textual Notes II. The Legend of Mary Magdalen, Penitent and Apostle Introduction and Select Bibliography Early South English Legendary Life of Mary Magdalen Explanatory Notes Textual Notes John Mirk, Sermon on St. Mary Magdalen Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Mary Magdalen, from Speculum Sacerdotale Notes III. Three Popular Legends of Virgin Martyrs (a) Margaret of Antioch Introduction and Select Bibliography Stanzaic Life of Margaret Explanatory Notes Textual Notes John Mirk, Sermon on St. Margaret Explanatory Notes Textual Notes John Lydgate, "Lyfe of Seynt Margarete" Explanatory Notes Textual Notes (b) Katherine of Alexandria Introduction and Select Bibliography Stanzaic Life of Katherine Explanatory Notes Textual Notes John Mirk, Sermon on St. Katherine Explanatory Notes Textual Notes St. Katherine, from Speculum Sacerdotale Notes (c) Christina of Bolsena Introduction and Select Bibliography William Paris, Life of St. Christina Explanatory Notes Textual Notes IV. Legends of St. Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary Introduction and Select Bibliography John Mirk, Sermon on the Conception of the Virgin Mary Explanatory Notes Textual Notes John Mirk, Sermon on St. Anne Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Osbern Bokenham, Life of St. Anne Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Glossary

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• NCID: BA68041535
• ISBN:
  • 1580440460
• LCCN: 2002152808
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engenm
• Place of Publication: Kalamazoo, Mich.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 312 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1120
  • DC21 : 820.8/0382700922
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christian literature, English (Middle)
  • LCSH : Christian women saints -- Legends
  • LCSH : Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19761902