Women from the Golden Legend: Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian Sanctoral

by Emma Gatland

Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend' (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medieval Iberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855662299
• ISBN13: 9781855662292
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"