The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria

by John Capgrave

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The fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Alexandria, who was an anomalous cultural icon, a scholar, and a sovereign whose story unsettled traditional gender stereotypes yet was widely popular throughout Western Europe. Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria (ca. 1445) stands out among the hundreds of surviving vernacular and Latin narrations about the saint...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0268210063

ISBN13:9780268210069

Release Date:November 2024

Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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