Sanctity As Literature in Late Medieval Britain by Eva von Contzen;Anke Bernau;

Author:Eva von Contzen;Anke Bernau;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Notes

1 Carl Horstmann, ‘Forewords’, in Horstmann (ed.), John Capgrave:The Life of St Katharine of Alexandria, EETS O.S. 100 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1893), pp. v–xxviii.

2 M.C. Seymour, John Capgrave, Authors of the Middle Ages 11 (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996), p. 221.

3 Seymour is certainly not alone in his critique of hagiography; as Sarah Salih notes, the genre has long suffered from suggestions that it is ‘too crude and too stereotypical’, ‘static and derivative’, and its piety can be alienating to a modern secular reader; see Salih, ‘Introduction: Saints, Cults and ‘Lives’ in Medieval England’, in Sarah Salih (ed.), A Companion to Middle English Hagiography (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 1–23, at p. 20.

4 Derek Pearsall, ‘John Capgrave’s Life of St Katharine and Popular Romance Style’, Medievalia et Humanistica 6 (1975), pp. 121–37, at p. 123.

5 Jane C. Fredeman, ‘Style and Characterization in John Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 62 (1980), pp. 346–87.

6 Mary-Ann Stouck, ‘Chaucer and Capgrave’s Life of St Katharine’, American Benedictine Review 33 (1982), pp. 276–91, at p. 291.

7 See for example Karen A. Winstead, ‘Piety, Politics, and Social Commitment in Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine’, Medievalia et Humanistica 17 (1991), pp. 59–80, and ‘Capgrave’s Saint Katherine and the Perils of Gynecocracy’, Viator 25 (1994), pp. 361–76; Anke Bernau, ‘A Christian Corpus: Virginity, Violence, and Knowledge in the Life of St Katherine of Alexandria’, in Jacqueline Jenkins and Katherine J. Lewis (eds), St Katherine of Alexandria: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp.109–30; and Sarah James, ‘“Doctryne and studie”: Female Learning and Religious Debate in Capgrave’s Life of St Katharine’, Leeds Studies in English n.s. 36 (2005), pp. 275–302.

8 John Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine, ed. Karen A. Winstead (Kalamazoo, MI: TEAMS Medieval Institute Publications, 1999). All references will be given by book and line numbers in the text. My focus on this text is determined by restraints on time and space, rather than a dismissal of the possible literary qualities of Capgrave’s other works.

9 Sarah James, ‘The Verse Saints’ Lives of John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham’, in Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds), A Companion to Fifteenth Century English Poetry (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013).

10 Capgrave, Katherine, II.575–83.

11 Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’, in Larry D. Benson (ed.), The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), l. 982.

12 Ovid, Remedia Amoris, in E.J. Kenney (ed.), P. Ovidii Nasonis: Remedia Amoris, Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995 [1961]), ll. 91–3.

13 Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430– 1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 66.

14 See for example W.Y. Sellar, ‘Motives, Form, Substance, and Sources of the Georgics’, in The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil, 3rd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), pp. 174–98; ‘Introduction’, in Virgil, The Georgics, trans. L.P. Wilkinson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982), pp. 20–6.

15 Capgrave is here participating in a long tradition which emphasises the moral or

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