The Passion of St Katherine of Alexandria

by Tina Chronopoulos

How and why did the story of St Katherine's passion, which did not generate a particularly exceptional devotion in Byzantium during the final centuries of the first millennium, end up transplanted to the fertile religious environment of eleventh-century Normandy?

This study contends that Katherine's appeal to the Normans is rooted in her relative obscurity and verisimilar resemblances to early martyrs, and that the very early texts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911694030
• ISBN13: 9781911694038
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Medium Aevum Monographs / Ssmll
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"