The audience of the saints' lives of the Katherine Group. [In special issue: Saints and Saints' Lives - Essays in Honour of D.H. Farmer]
The audience of the saints' lives of the Katherine Group. [In special issue: Saints and Saints' Lives - Essays in Honour of D.H. Farmer]
The article notes that the three early thirteenth-century Middle English saints' lives of the 'Katherine Group', although they popularise and simplify their Latin sources for an English-speaking audience, are nevertheless more sophisticated stylistically and intellectually than other English saints' lives of the period, and explains this by the variety of the audiences for which they were intended: the lay congregation to which two of the three Lives are explicitly addressed, and the comparatively well-educated women in religion whose needs they also take into account.
127-156
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
1990
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
Millett, Bella
(1990)
The audience of the saints' lives of the Katherine Group. [In special issue: Saints and Saints' Lives - Essays in Honour of D.H. Farmer].
Reading Medieval Studies, XVI, .
Abstract
The article notes that the three early thirteenth-century Middle English saints' lives of the 'Katherine Group', although they popularise and simplify their Latin sources for an English-speaking audience, are nevertheless more sophisticated stylistically and intellectually than other English saints' lives of the period, and explains this by the variety of the audiences for which they were intended: the lay congregation to which two of the three Lives are explicitly addressed, and the comparatively well-educated women in religion whose needs they also take into account.
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Published date: 1990
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 67604
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/67604
ISSN: 0950-3129
PURE UUID: 37d24bb3-93bf-4e61-bc2a-117e524e6dcb
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 28 Aug 2009
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 16:17
Export record
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics