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St Katherine of Alexandria English: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe: 8 (Medieval women :|texts & contexts) - Tapa dura

Lewis, Katherine J.

 
9782503512907: St Katherine of Alexandria English: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe: 8 (Medieval women :|texts & contexts)
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ISBN 10: 2503512909 ISBN 13: 9782503512907
Editorial: Brepols, 2003

Sinopsis

This volume contains an interdisciplinary collection of essays on St Katherine of Alexandria and her followers.

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Reseña del editor

St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in Medieval Europe. This book constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to explore her cult and the range of meanings which St Katherine embodied for her devotees. The essays between them consider a wide range of evidence, from visual representations (wall paintings, manuscript illuminations, stained glass, and seals), to literary texts (lives of the saint, prayers, hymns, devotional manuscripts, and breviaries) as well as documentary evidence (wills, chronicles, ecclesiastical records and antiquarian writings) and the physical remains of churches and chapels dedicated to St Katherine. These sources are interpreted as part of wider manifestations of devotion to the saint in England, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Wales. The authors approach the cult from varying disciplinary and methodological perspectives, but all seek to uncover the various religious, social and cultural messages contained within the different versions of St Katherine which these particular texts and contexts offer. The volume as a whole therefore sheds light not only on devotion to St Katherine, but also on a much wider range of issues and ideologies governing the lives of her devotees and the societies in which they lived.

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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Huddersfield

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Editorial
Brepols
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
2503512909
ISBN 13 
9782503512907
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Número de páginas
257
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