Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8754
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Turville-Petre , Thorlac.
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  • Title: A Middle English Life of St. Zita [The author briefly notes a fragment of the Middle English translation of the "Life" of Saint Zitra, a thirteenth century servant in Lucca, Italy. The article includes a transcription of the surviving text. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: Nottingham Medieval Studies 35, ( 1991): Pages 102 - 105.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Edition of Text;Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Domesticity Hagiography Literature- Prose Translation Women in Religion Zita, Saint
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
  • Primary Evidence: Manuscript; Nottingham, Nottingham University Library MS Mi LM 37. It is a single leaf of paper with a fragment of the "Life" of Saint Zita in Middle English. The hand is dated to the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Nottingham
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English;Middle English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00782122