The Life of Christina of Markyate : a twelfth century recluse / edited and translated by C.H. Talbot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Talbot, C. H. (Charles H.)

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford medieval texts

Oxford medieval texts.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christina, of Markyate, Saint, approximately 1096-approximately 1155.

Christina.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 204 pages : map ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, [1987]

Summary:

The Life of Christina of Markyate, a twelfth-century English recluse and later abbess of Markyate, near St A1bans, is a remarkable example of late medieval hagiography. Originally written at the time of or soon after Christina's death in the twelfth century, the Life is unusual both in its relative lack of miracles, and in the unknown author's decision to write Christina's life factually rather than gathering together stock elements from previously written saint's lives, as was the custom. First published in 1959, this edition contains the original Latin text with a facing-page English translation. It is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction that discusses the codicological problems of the text, and provides other contextual and background material.

Notes:

"First published 1959. Reprinted with additional material ... 1987."--t.p. verso

Contains:

British Museum. Manuscript. Cottonian Tiberius E.I.

ISBN:

0198212747

OCLC:

15617314