The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria - 9780268044268
Un libro in lingua di John Capgrave Winstead Karen A. (TRN) edito da Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2011
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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 by its intricate plotting, its moral complexity, its obtrusive Chaucerian narrator, and its attention to psychology, history, and theology. The Life of Saint Katherine is a bold literary experiment that transforms the genre of the saint's life by infusing it with conventions and techniques more often associated with chronicles, mystery plays, fabliaux, and romances.
"Karen A. Winstead's translation of Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine is extremely well done. The text is elegantly simple, nuanced, and serious in tone; graced as well with an excellent introduction and complete bibliography of Katherine materials, Winstead's edition is sure to inspire students to pursue further studies in Middle English." —Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria
- Lingua: English
- Autori : John Capgrave Winstead Karen A. (TRN)
- Editore: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Collana: Univ of Notre Dame Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Settembre '11
- Genere: POETRY
- Argomenti : Christian poetry, English (Middle) Translations into English
- Pagine: 203
- ISBN-10: 0268044260
- EAN-13: 9780268044268