Women from the Golden legend : female authority in a medieval Castilian sanctoral / Emma Gatland.

Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend', the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sactorals, and the 25 female saints witnessed...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 296.
Main Author: Gatland, Emma
Language:Multiple languages
English
Spanish
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; New York : Tamesis, 2011.
Series:Colección Támesis. Monografías ; 296.
Subjects:
Jacobus, > de Voragine, > approximately 1229-1298. > Legenda aurea.
Women saints > Biography.
Christian hagiography.
Spanish literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:vi, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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Summary:
Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend', the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sactorals, and the 25 female saints witnessed therein.
Call Number:BX4656 .G385 2011
ISBN:9781855662292 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1855662299 (hbk. : alk. paper)