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Living saints of the thirteenth century : the lives of Yvette, anchoress of Huy; Juliana of Cornillon, author of the Corpus Christi feast; and Margaret the Lame, anchoress of Magdeburg / edited and with an introduction by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker ; translations by Jo Ann McNamara ... [and others].
LIBRA BX4656 .L58 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval women--texts and contexts ; 20.
- Medieval women : texts and contexts ; v. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yvette, of Huy, 1158-1228.
- Yvette.
- Juliana, of Liège, Saint, 1193-1258.
- Juliana.
- Margareta, Contracta, active 13th century.
- Margareta.
- Christian women saints--Europe, Northern--Biography.
- Christian women saints.
- Women hermits--Europe, Northern--Biography.
- Women hermits.
- Christian women saints--Belgium--Biography.
- Women hermits--Germany--Magdeburg--Biography.
- Women mystics--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Women mystics.
- Christian biography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian biography.
- Women in Christianity--Europe, Northern--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.
- Women in Christianity.
- Christian biography--Translations into English.
- History.
- Northern Europe.
- Europe.
- Germany--Magdeburg.
- Belgium.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 414 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout : Brepols, [2011]
- Summary:
- Yvette of Huy and Margaret the Lame are two fascinating female recluses of the thirteenth century. This volume contains translations of the Lives of these two women, written by close contemporaries. The Life of Yvette of Huy, by Hugh of Floreffe, is translated by Jo Ann McNamara; the Life of Margaret the Lame, by Brother John of Magdeburg OP, is translated by Gertrud Jaron Lewis and Tilman Lewis. These translations, which previously appeared in the Peregrina series, are introduced by Anneke Mulder-Bakker.
- Contents:
- General introduction
- Canon of thirteenth-century southern Netherlandish saints' lives / Barbara Newman and Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
- The life of Yvette, anchoress of Huy / by Hugh of Floreffe
- The life of Juliana of Cornillon / translated by Barbara Newman
- The life of Margaret the Lame, anchoress of Magedurg / by Friar Johannes O.P. of Magdeburg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-406) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- Contains:
- Hugh, of Floreffe. De B. Juetta sive Jutta vidua reclusa Hui in Belgio. English.
- Merkel, Johannes, von Magdeburg, 13th century. Vita Margarete contracte. English.
- Vita Sanctae Julianae Virginis. English
- ISBN:
- 9782503520773
- 2503520774
- OCLC:
- 762992907
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