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Jews --- Arabs --- Legends, Jewish. --- Christian legends. --- Legends, Christian --- Legends --- Legends, Jewish --- History. --- History --- Iran --- Jewish legends

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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.

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Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's life and the plethora of popular medieval legends surrounding the reign, to reveal the different visions and representations of the emperor from saint and patron of the Western church to imperial prototype.

Emperors --- Religion and state --- Christian legends --- Legends, Christian --- Legends --- State and religion --- State, The --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Constantine --- Constantijn, --- Constantin, --- Constantin --- Constantine, --- Constantino --- Constantinus Flavius Valerius Aurelius, --- Constantinus --- Constantinus, --- Costantino --- Costantino, --- Flaviĭ Valeriĭ Avreliĭ Konstantin, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, --- Flavius Valerius Constantinus, --- Konstantin, --- Konstantin --- Kōnstantinos, --- Kōnstantinos --- Konstantyn, --- Kostandianos --- Κωνσταντίνος, --- Флавий Валерий Аврелий Константин, --- Константин --- Константин, --- Flavije Valerije Konstantin --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- History --- Historiography.