Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 “Seo Wæs Ærest Synnecge”: The Holy Harlot’s Transformations in Old English Hagiography
- 2 The Post-Conquest Harlot: Affective Piety and the Romance Genre
- 3 Heterodoxy, Patronage, and the Harlot in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Hagiography
- 4 “She Shal Byn Abyll to Dystroye Helle”: Gender and Authority in the Digby Mary Magdalene
- 5 Admiranda et Imitanda? Emulation of the Holy Harlot Type by Late Medieval Female Mystics
- Conclusion: Holy or Harlot? The Early Modern Demise of the Saintly Prostitute
- Appendix: Vernacular Lives of Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Gender in the Middle Ages
Appendix: Vernacular Lives of Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 “Seo Wæs Ærest Synnecge”: The Holy Harlot’s Transformations in Old English Hagiography
- 2 The Post-Conquest Harlot: Affective Piety and the Romance Genre
- 3 Heterodoxy, Patronage, and the Harlot in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Hagiography
- 4 “She Shal Byn Abyll to Dystroye Helle”: Gender and Authority in the Digby Mary Magdalene
- 5 Admiranda et Imitanda? Emulation of the Holy Harlot Type by Late Medieval Female Mystics
- Conclusion: Holy or Harlot? The Early Modern Demise of the Saintly Prostitute
- Appendix: Vernacular Lives of Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Gender in the Middle Ages
Summary
This appendix lists the extant vernacular lives of holy harlots originating in the British Isles during the Middle Ages. These are divided into five categories, depending on whether they were written in Old English, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Middle Welsh, or Irish. Some information about the texts has been supplied, and, where possible, the date, author, and source(s) are listed. The most recent edition of each saint's life has also been added, alongside that of its Latin or vernacular source if available.
A. OLD ENGLISH
B. 1–3. Lives of Mary Magdalene, Pelagia, and Afra of Augsburg in the Old English Martyrology
Late ninth century
Short prose accounts drawn from diverse source material.
Edition: Christine Rauer, The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013).
B. 4. Pseudo-Ælfrician Life of Mary of Egypt
Late tenth century
This version is a close prose translation of a ninth-century Latin version by a deacon named Paul, itself a close translation from the early seventh-century Greek version reputedly authored by Sophronius.
Edition: Hugh Magennis (ed.), Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt, An Edition of the Old English Text with Modern English Parallel-text Translation (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002).
Edition of the closest source: the Cotton-Corpus Legendary version of the vita of Mary of Egypt is edited by Magennis in the same volume.
A. ANGLO-NORMAN
B. 5. Life of Thaïs, anonymous
c. 1160–80
This verse life was authored by an anonymous Anglo-Norman author, “most likely an Austin canon,” who also wrote translations of the Vitas Patrum, the Libellus de Antichristo, and the Visio sancti Pauli apostoli “for the moral and spiritual edification of the Templars.” The life of St Thaïs is dedicated to, and was probably commissioned by, Henri d’Arci.
Edition: R.C.D. Perman (ed.), “Henri d’Arci: The Shorter Works,” in Studies in Medieval French Presented to Alfred Ewert, ed. E.A. Francis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), pp. 279–321.
Edition of the Latin source: Ibid.
B. 6. T Vie de Marie l’Egyptienne, anonymous
Last quarter of the twelfth century
Long verse life (1532 lines) in octosyllabic couplets, source unknown.
Edition: Peter F. Dembowski (ed.), La Vie de sainte Marie l’Egyptienne, versions en ancien et en moyen français (Geneva: Droz, 1977).
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- Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious LiteratureAuthority, Exemplarity and Femininity, pp. 231 - 240Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021