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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 245–269.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Kimberly Fonzo This article argues that the devil's appearance in chapter 59 of The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative adaptation of Legenda aurea hagiographies in which a devil takes on the guise of a woman to seduce male saints. Like a male saint, Kempe is tempted with a sexual spectacle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... every bit as much as does their obdu-
rate Christianity.
An illuminated manuscript of the Legenda Aurea, produced in
Paris in the late thirteenth century and taken to England a few generations
later, provides a particularly telling case in point. As befits a compilation
of stories about...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2021
... is breastfeeding!” 58 In his Legenda Aurea (1259–66), Jacopo da Voragine emphasizes that Saint Anne nursed her daughter for three full years before presenting her to the Temple. Moreover, she seems to have breastfed Mary's friends as well. When the Virgin leaves the Temple at age fourteen to marry Joseph...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 367–382.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., o.s., vol. 356. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2020. xi, 417 pp., 1 plate. $85.00. [Bokenham's translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea , complemented by lives of various British saints, is the first edition of a major work by the fifteenth-century...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 593–610.
Published: 01 September 2022
... martyrdom. Middle High German text along with comparative texts of the Old High German Georgslied , the Latin legend from the Legenda Aurea , a German translation from the Alsatian Legenda Aurea , and Georg Hager's lyric poem “Der Ritter Sant Georg.”] Rosenberg, Samuel N., trans. Tales of a Minstrel...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is important for the way it
reveals how the legend interacted with rituals associated with childbirth.14
Though not all medieval lives of Margaret incorporate this prayer
for mothers (the Legenda Aurea does not), many Middle English versions
do, though the prayers vary in their expression...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 531–547.
Published: 01 September 2007
... sources,
Higden’s Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea, sustained their popularity
across the manuscript/print divide. The continued relevance of the Poly-
chronicon through the sixteenth century, the difficulty of distinguishing the
Chester plays’ assumed debt to a manuscript text of the Stanzaic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and at Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea (ca. 1260) — works dat-
ing, for Raymond, from the not-so-distant thirteenth century.2 At the same
time, Raymond’s Life reflects a specifically Thomistic scholasticism and the
newly juridical process of canonization, elaborated by the Avignoise popes
(1309...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
... virginity in Legenda Aurea.53 292 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.2 / 2017 Middle English verse and prose versions of the Salome episode are numerous. The Stanzaic Life of Christ, likely a source for the Chester Cycle, features Salome s assay, injury, and healing, after which the midwife...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 521–544.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
and hosier (marchant cauchetier) from Amiens, named Jean Piece, with a
workshop (ouvroir) in his house, possessed according to a 1518 inventory
a book with the French translation of the Legenda aurea.45 The inventory
made in 1522 after the death of Jeanne Cosette, wife of Jean Sagnier, wool
merchant...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
...: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wis-
senschaften, 1989), 892 (no. 468).
28 Liber diurnus romanorum pontificum: Gesamtausgabe, ed. Hans Förster (Bern:
Francke, 1958), 418.
29 Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea con le miniature dal codice Ambrosiano C 240
inf., ed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 183–197.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Library Publishing, 2015. 352 pp.; color illus. throughout. Slipcased.
$199.00. [Facsimile edition of the Bodleian manuscript.]
Naghel, Petrus. Gulden legende: De Middelnederlandse vertaling van de
“Legenda aurea” door Petrus Naghel; uitgegeven naar handschrift Brussel,
Koninklijke Bibliotheek...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in Jacobus de Voragine s collection of saints lives The Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) and Robert Mannyng s work of moral instruction, Handlyng Synne. Praising John s rare example of hos- pitality and bountifulnesse to the poore, Foxe recounts: This John (being before belike a hard and sparing man) as he...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 549–583.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Robert Whiting, The Reformation of the English Parish Church (Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 106 – 8.
36 Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea sanctorum, trans. William Caxton (London,
1483), fol. 370v.
37 See Carole Levin, “ ‘Would I Could Give You Help and Succour...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of seynt Katheryne of Sene (London, fol. iiv.
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia (London,
sig. C r.
Adam of Eynsham, The prologe of this reuelacion (London, n.p. [ rst page];
The Vision of Edmund Leversedge: A th- Century Account...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 159–195.
Published: 01 January 2015
... is motivated by hunger. Yet hers is not just a
craving for meat, but actual starvation.
The story of Mary of Jerusalem was widely disseminated by the late
thirteenth century in popular writings, sermons, homilies, and other forms
of discourse.46 In the Legenda Aurea, for example, Jacobus de...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 163–186.
Published: 01 January 2014
... the Sessorian Palace
and throughout the period, the cult continued to grow.49 By the twelfth cen-
tury, the “Holy Wood” or “Rood” had become an object of veneration, and
Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea or “Golden Legend” helped to dissemi-
nate True Cross stories further. Both literary...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Maiora (before 1259); Jacobus de Vora- gine compiled it in his Legenda Aurea (ca. 1260); and Vincent de Beauvais included it in his Speculum Historiale (mid-thirteenth century).7 Other texts use details from the Tractatus, such as specific torments or the preparations for the purgatorial pilgrimage...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to generate a commu-
nal effect from her meditations on scripture and the Legenda aurea of Jaco-
bus de Voragine that served as the inspiring sources for her plays. But she
read much more than the Bible and Voragine’s tales of saints’ lives. Pulci’s
dedication of her “alti pensieri” to “cari studi delle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 269–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
... pseudo-Bonaventure’s Meditationes Vitae Christi, offers St. Cecilia, a
saint celebrated for the three days of public preaching she accomplished
after an unsuccessful attempt to decapitate her, as an example of meditative
reading. A metaphor of her devotion from the Legenda Aurea—that she
always bore...
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