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Legends of Holy Women
  • Various authors, attributed primarily to the work of Saint Gregory of Tours and later medieval hagiographers.
Reviews
Author(s) Title Reference
CONOR MCCARTHY Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England 77/1, p. 138

languages

  • Latin
  • Late Middle English
  • Italian

works

  • The Book of Margery Kempe
  • Second Nun's Tale
  • Life of Christina of Markyate
  • Legends of Holy Women
  • Life of Saint Werburge

people

  • Margery Kempe
  • Christina of Markyate
  • Henry Bradshaw
  • Osborn Bokenham
  • Saint Werburge

subjects

  • gender
  • performance
  • scholarship
  • continuity
  • interpretation
  • identity
  • historicity
  • national
  • orthodoxy
  • patronage
  • Exemplarity
  • devotion
  • hagiography
  • audience
  • instability

places

  • Philadelphia
  • Lancastrian
  • England
  • Markyate
  • Cecilia
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