Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria PDF
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KATERN 1 ORDER 2081172 V S IRGINS AND CHOLARS Page 1 ORDER 2081172 MEDIEVAL WOMEN: TEXTSAND CONTEXTS EditorialBoardundertheauspicesofthe CentreforMedieval Studies, UniversityofHull RenateBlumenfeld-Kosinski,University ofPittsburgh JulietteDor,Université de Liège ConstantJ. Mews,Monash University AnnekeMulder-Bakker,RijksuniversiteitGroningen BarbaraNewman,NorthwesternUniversity Gabriella Signori,UniversitätKonstanz NicholasWatson,HarvardUniversity JocelynWogan-Browne,FordhamUniversity Previouslypublishedvolumesinthisseriesarelistedatthebackofthisbook. VOLUME10 Page 2 ORDER 2081172 V S IRGINS AND CHOLARS A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria Ed. by Claire M. Waters H F Page 3 ORDER 2081172 BritishLibrary CataloguinginPublicationData Virginsandscholars:afifteenth-centurycompilationofthelivesofJohntheBaptist,John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria. – (Medieval women : texts and contexts;v.10) 1. John, the Baptist, Saint 2. John, the Apostle, Saint 3. Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20 4.Catherine,ofAlexandria,Saint5.Christiansaints–Biography –Earlyworksto1800 6.Devotionalliterature – Historyandcriticism7.Christianityand culture –England– History–MiddleAges,600–15008.Hagiography I.Waters,Claire M. 270'.0922 ISBN-13:9782503514529 ©2008,BrepolsPublishersn.v.,Turnhout,Belgium Allrightsreserved.No partofthispublication maybe reproduced, storedina retrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inany formorbyany means, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, without theprior permissionofthepublisher. D/2008/0095/109 ISBN: 978-2-503-51452-9 Printedin theE.U.onacid-freepaper Page 4 ORDER 2081172 CONTENTS ListofIllustrations vii Acknowledgements viii ListofAbbreviations xi Introduction 1 SaintJohntheBaptist 68 SaintJohntheEvangelist 124 SaintJerome 178 SaintKatherineofAlexandria 276 Appendix 425 Bibliography 469 Index 483 Page 5 ORDER 2081172 Page 6 ORDER 2081172 ILLUSTRATIONS Cover image: ‘Joanna of Castile with her patron saint, St John the Evangelist’, fromtheHoursofJoannaofCastile,London,BritishLibrary,AdditionalMS 18852, fol. 288r. Between 1496 and 1506. © The British Library Board (UNICAL05).AllRightsReserved. Plate 1, p. 53.LifeofStJerome, Cambridge, StJohn’s College, MS N.17, fol. 2v. Second quarter of the fifteenth century. Reproduced by permission of the Masterand FellowsofStJohn’sCollege,Cambridge. Plate 2, p. 54. Life of St Katherine of Alexandria, Cambridge, MA, Houghton Library,MSRichardson44,fol.3v.Second quarterofthe fifteenth century. Reproducedbypermission of the Houghton Library of theHarvard College Library,HarvardUniversity. Page 7 ORDER 2081172 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS O ne of thegreatpleasuresoffinishing,atlonglast,thislabourofloveisthe chance tothankthe manypeopleand institutionsthat havehelpediton itsway over the years. Richard Beadle first introduced me toSt John’s College,MSS N.16and N.17 and gave me the toolstoapproach them,and was kind enough to encourage me when I rashly suggested that I might edit them. OliverPickeringhasbeen unfailingly generousinhissuggestionsand hasshaped and improvedtheeditionthroughoutitsdevelopment.An NEHseminar on Latin paleography led by Diana Greenway and Jane Sayers in the summer of 1995 allowedmeto meetothersworkingonsimilarprojectswho shared their expertise, notably Dan Embree, and introduced me tocolleagues who have offeredinvaluable assistance in numerous ways, notably Larry Scanlon. Richard Kieckhefer and BarbaraNewman’sextraordinary knowledgeofhagiographyand itsculturalcon- textsprovidedessentialstructure inwhatInow think of asthe end of the project’s early years. Somewhat more recently, I am grateful to Candace Hull Taylor for heroic labourswith theLinguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval EnglishandtoBarbara Zimba- listfor entering‘themodern hellofindexing’;to PatrickGallacher,RussellPeck, CathySanok,SarahMcNamer,and FrancesMcSparran for adviceoneditingand Middle English; and particularly to Richard Hamerand Vida Russellfor theirgreat scholarly generosity insharingtheir sources and their prepublication work, as well asfor the editionsthathaveenrichedmy research and teaching.Claire Sahlin has beenanessentialsource for all things Brigittine;I thank her for her responses to many,many queries. Richard Hoffman kindlyprovided a thoughtful response to a somewhat randominquiry about medievalfishing. Without sage andtimelyinterventionfromTheresaColettiand GailMcMur- ray Gibson, this work wouldhavetaken stilllonger tocomplete; their advice ata Page 8
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