"Dedicated to the miraculous side of the Germania Latina nexus, the essays in this collection treat cultural appropriation in saints' lives and other religious texts derived from Latin traditions and transmitted through medieval Germanic vernaculars. Miracle stories were appeali…
"A study of how Jewish and Christian writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries rewrite, translate, and circulate ancient texts, primarily the post-biblical literature of the late antique and early medieval periods. The project focuses on these hybrid medieval Latin and Heb…
In Texts of the Passion, Thomas H. Bestul constructs the literary history of the Latin Passion narratives, placing them within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. He examines the ways in which the Passion is narrated and renarrated in devotional treatises, paying pa…
Living saints of the thirteenth century: the lives of Yvette, anchoress of Huy, Juliana of…
by Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B., Hugo, Floreffiensis, Juliana, von Lüttich, Johannes Magdeburgensis, Priester, Deutschland, McNamara, Jo Ann, Historikerin, USA, Johannes Magdeburgensis, Priest, Germany, Johannes Magdeburgensis, Prêtre, Allemagne
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Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh, nurse! The Boethian daemon -…