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Hagiography --- Christian hagiography --- Legends [Christian ]

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Christelijke legenden --- Christian legends --- Legenden [Christelijke ] --- Legends [Christian ] --- Légendes chrétiennes --- Bible --- Legends

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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Spanish literature --- Christian legends --- Christian saints --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Legends, Christian --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Escorial.

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Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still the most popular female saints. Their legends, in countless retellings through the centuries, preserved a standard plot-the heroine resists a pagan suitor, endures cruelties inflicted by her rejected lover or outraged family, works miracles, and dies for Christ. That sequence was embellished by incidents emblematic of the specific saint: Juliana's battle with the devil, Barbara's immurement in the tower, Katherine's encounter with spiked wheels. Karen A. Winstead examines this seemingly static story form and discovers subtle shifts in the representation of the virgin martyrs, as their legends were adapted for changing audiences in late medieval England.

Christian legends --- Christian hagiography --- Virginity --- Christian women martyrs --- Christian women saints --- Legends, Christian --- Legends --- Sexual abstinence --- Defloration --- First sexual experiences --- Women Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- England --- Religious life and customs. --- Church history --- History and criticism --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Legends [Christian ] --- 1066-1485 --- Religious life and customs --- Christian women saints - Biography - History and criticism. --- Christian women martyrs - Biography - History and criticism. --- Virginity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Legends, Christian - England.