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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 Alexan Hardcover - 2008
by Claire Waters (Editor)
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- Title Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexan
- Author Claire Waters (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 491
- Volumes 1
- Language ENM
- Publisher Brepols Publishers
- Date 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bilingual, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9782503514529 / 2503514529
- Weight 2.29 lbs (1.04 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.4 in (24.38 x 16.26 x 3.56 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Dewey Decimal Code 270.092
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2009, Page 24
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Turnhout Brepols 2008. Hardback, XII+494 p., 2 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503514529. 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…
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