Virgin Lives and Holy Deaths: Two Exeplary Biographies for Anglo-Norman Women (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460875809 ISBN 13: 9780460875806

Publisher: Everymans Library, 1996

Synopsis

In Anglo-Norman Britain, women were important consumers and patrons of literature; some, like Clemence of Barking, composed their own work. Her biography Life of St. Catherine is here translated for the first time in 800 years. This fascinating account of a virgin's martyrdom skewed the representation of women customary to the genre and offered alternative role models for Clemence's female community.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Everymans Library
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0460875809
• ISBN 13: 9780460875806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106
• Editor: Wogan-Browne Jocelyn, Burgess Glyn S., Clemence