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Saintes chrétiennes --- Légendes. --- Marguerite,

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"Set Me as a Seal Upon Thy Heart: Constructions of Female Sanctity in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Period" is a collection of essays focusing on saintly women's representations both in Eastern and Western Christianity starting from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages and Early Modernity. The volume discusses two different categories in relation to the conceptualization of female sanctity: the context of their construction in hagiographic sources and the emergent power rendered by their martyrdoms. It offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the present research carried out in the fields of hagiography, history, and art history.

Saintes chrétiennes --- Femmes et christianisme --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Art chrétien --- Sainteté féminine

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"Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem analyzes one of the most richly detailed stories of a woman of late antiquity. Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat, renounced her many possessions and staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Hers is a tale of "riches to rags." Born to high Roman aristocracy in the late fourth century, Melania encountered numerous difficulties posed by family members, Roman officials, and historical circumstances themselves in disposing of her wealth, property spread across at least eight Roman provinces, and thousands of slaves. Leaving Rome with her entourage a few years before Alaric the Goth's sack of Rome in 410, she journeyed to Sicily, then to North Africa (where she had estates upon which founded monasteries), before settling in Jerusalem. There, after some years of semi-solitary existence, she founded more monastic complexes. Towards the end of her life, she traveled to Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) in an attempt to convert to Christianity her still-pagan uncle, who was on a state mission to the eastern Roman court. Throughout her life, she was accustomed to meet and be assisted by emperors and empresses, bishops, and other high dignitaries. Embracing a fairly extreme asceticism, Melania died in Jerusalem in 439. Her Life, two versions of which (Greek and Latin) were discovered in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries, was composed by a long-time assistant who succeeded her in the direction of the male and female monasteries in Jerusalem. An English translation of the Greek version of her Life accompanies the text of this nine-chapter book"--

Christian women saints --- Christian women saints. --- Homes. --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Melania, --- Homes and haunts. --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439 --- Melania iunior, matrona Romana

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Focusing on the critical case of Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), the essays in this volume consider the role of texts, translations and images in various media in constructing and disseminating the cult of a saint in the late Middle Ages. How does one construct a saint and promote a cult beyond the immediate community in which he or she lived? Italian mendicants had accumulated a good deal of experience in dealing with this politically explosive question. The posthumous description of the life of Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) written by the Master General of the order, Bonaventure (d. 1274), could be regarded as paradigmatic in this regard. A similarly massive intervention in the production and diffusion of a cult can be observed in the case of the Dominican tertiary, Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), who in many respects (e.g. the imitation of Christ and her stigmatization) ‘competed’ with Francis of Assisi. Raymund of Capua (d. 1399), the Master General of the order, established the foundation for the dissemination of the cult by writing the authoritative life, but it was only the following generation that succeeded in establishing and disseminating the cult on a broad basis by means of copies, adaptations, and translations. The question of how to make a cult, which stands at the center of this volume, thus presents itself in terms of the challenge of rewriting a legend for different audiences. The various contributions consider the role, not only of texts in many different vernaculars (Czech, English, French, German, and Italian), but also of images, whether separately or in connection with one another. -- Provided by publisher

Catherine of Siena --- Christian women saints --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Catherine, --- Cult --- History --- Catherine de Sienne, --- Culte --- 235.3 CATHARINA SENENSIS --- Hagiografie--CATHARINA SENENSIS --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Civil religion --- Italy --- Siena (Italy) --- Catharina v. Senensis --- Catherine, - of Siena, Saint, - 1347-1380 - Cult --- Catherine, - of Siena, Saint, - 1347-1380 - Cult - History --- Catherine, - of Siena, Saint, - 1347-1380

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Among the thirteenth-century saints exalted are female martyrs and hermits of early Christianity. In The Lady as Saint, Brigitte Cazelles offers the first English translation of these lives and provides extensive commentary on the portrayal of female spirituality.

Poetry --- Old French literature --- anno 1200-1299 --- French poetry --- Christian women saints --- Poésie française --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Translations into English. --- Legends. --- Traductions anglaises --- Légendes --- Poésie française --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Légendes --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Legends --- Translations into English --- French poetry - To 1500 - Translations into English --- Christian women saints - Legends --- Saintes femmes