Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3444
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Yoshikawa , Naoë Kukita.
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  • Title: Veneration of Virgin Martyrs in Margery Kempe's Meditation: Influence of the Sarum Liturgy and Hagiography
  • Source: Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.  Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead.  University of Toronto Press, 2000.  Pages 177 - 195.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Bride of Christ, Image of Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint Hagiography Kempe, Margery, Mystic Lay Piety Martyrs Mystics Sarum Liturgy Virginity Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
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  • Related Resources: Yoshikawa focuses on the effect on Margery of the liturgical veneration of virgin martyrs, especially St. Katherine, St. Margaret, St. Barbara, and also Mary Magdalen, the penitent who through conversion gained similar status: in the Sarum Missal "Mary Ma
  • Author's Affiliation: Hokkaido University
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0802035175