Virgin Martyrs

Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England

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Karen A. Winstead

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Hardback

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"This is truly exciting new work. Karen Winstead's book is the first discussion of virgin martyr legends that offers a broad survey of extant English texts from 1200 to 1400 A.D. Virgin Martyrs is clearly and logically organized, well-written, and it makes an original contribution to scholarship in persuasively historicizing virgin martyr legends."-Kathleen Ashley, University of Southern MaineStories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still the most popular female saints. Their legends, in countless retellings through the centuries, preserved a standard plot-the heroine resists a pagan suitor, endures cruelties inflicted by her rejected lover or outraged family, works miracles, and dies for Christ. That sequence was embellished by incidents emblematic of the specific saint: Juliana's battle with the devil, Barbara's immurement in the tower, Katherine's encounter with spiked wheels. Karen A. Winstead examines this seemingly static story form and discovers subtle shifts in the representation of the virgin martyrs, as their legends were adapted for changing audiences in late medieval England.

Author Biography:

Karen A. Winstead, Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, is the author of Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends, also from Cornell.

Release date Australia

November 11th, 1997

Author

Karen A. Winstead

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

216

Dimensions

155x235x21

ISBN-13

9780801433337

Product ID

25017401

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