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Jenkins, Jacqueline, and Katherine J. Lewis (eds), St Katherine of Alexandria: texts and contexts in western medieval Europe, Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 8, Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.

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Jenkins (Jacqueline)

Lewis (Katherine J.)

Work

St Katherine of Alexandria: texts and contexts in western medieval Europe

Place

Turnhout

Publisher

Brepols

Year

2003

Series

Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 8

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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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Medieval Europe

History, society and culture

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Catherine of AlexandriaCatherine of Alexandria
Katherine of Alexandria
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cults of saints

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