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Virgins and Scholars. A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2008 | | Collana: | Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts |
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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
daughter, to the life of Katherine, reputedly translated for Henry
V, to those of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, which set
their subjects in a recognizably Birgittine context, they show the
interaction of men and women, lay and monastic, in the production
of devotional literature. The diversity of their approaches and
sources, moreover, shows the links between English dynastic
politics and continental religious literature and spiritual
traditions. As examples of translation practices, of monastic
politics, and of religious instruction, these lives provide a
window onto the devotional culture and literary worlds of
fifteenth-century Europe.
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