| 1. |  € 95,00 | EAN-13: 9782503528366 M. Dockray-Miller
Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience. The Wilton Chronicle and the Wilton Life of St Æthelthryth
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts |
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Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle
Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience narrates the
lives of two Anglo-Saxon princesses who were venerated as saints
long after their deaths. St Edith, the daughter of King Edgar, was
renowned as a patron of the arts and the church during her
lifetime; her posthumous miracles included protection of Wilton
Abbey and the English royal family. St Æthelthryth, who
retained her virginity through not one but two royal marriages,
also worked numerous miracles at her tomb at the Abbey of Ely. The
poems, composed at Wilton Abbey in the early fifteenth century,
allow us to see how late medieval religious women practised their
devotion to early medieval women saints. The Middle English verse
texts are presented here in the original and in translation with
explanatory notes and glossary. A thorough introduction provides
extensive contextualization and analysis of the two poems as well
as description of the manuscript and its language and prosody.
These primary source texts are important contributions to the study
of English history, language, literature, religion, and women's
studies.
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