Christina Of Markyate


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The Life Of Christina Of Markyate


The Life Of Christina Of Markyate
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Author : Samuel Fanous
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2008

The Life Of Christina Of Markyate written by Samuel Fanous and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Christian women saints categories.


'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.'This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Determined to devote her life to God and to remain a virgin, Christina repulses the sexual advances of the bishop of Durham. In revenge he arranges her betrothalto a young nobleman but Christina steadfastly refuses to consummate the marriage and defies her parents' cruel coercion. Sustained by visions, she finds refuge with the hermit Roger, and lives concealed at Markyate for four years, enduring terrible physical and emotional torment. EventuallyChristina is supported by the abbot of St Albans, and her reputation as a person of great holiness spreads far and wide.Written with striking candour by Christina's anonymous biographer, the vividness and compelling detail of this account make it a social document as much as a religious one. Christina's trials of the flesh and spirit exist against a backdrop of scheming and corruption and all-too-human greed.



Christina Of Markyate


Christina Of Markyate
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Author : Samuel Fanous
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005

Christina Of Markyate written by Samuel Fanous and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Beautifully illustrated, and drawing on research from a wide range of disciplines, this interdisciplinary study provides students with a fascinating and comprehensive collection that surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman.



The Life Of Christina Of Markyate


The Life Of Christina Of Markyate
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Author : Medieval Academy of America
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01

The Life Of Christina Of Markyate written by Medieval Academy of America and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Religion categories.


"The Life of Christina of Markyate", a twelfth-century English recluse and later abbess of Markyate near St Albans, is a remarkable example of late medieval hagiography. Originally written at the time of or soon after Christina's death in the twelfth century, the Life is unusual both in its relative lack of miracles, and in the unknown author's decision to write Christina's life factually rather than gathering together stock elements from previously written saint's lives, as was the custom. First published in 1959, this edition contains the original Latin text with a facing-page English translation. It is accompanied by a comprehensive Introduction that discusses the codicological problems of the text, and provides other contextual and background material. 'One of the great virtues of this Life is its vivid revelations of Christina's personal circumstances, which must have been based on her own reminiscences. Although doubts have been cast on her veracity ... they do not affect the main lines of the extraordinary story she told the author.' From the General Editors' Note



The Life Of Christina Of Markyate


The Life Of Christina Of Markyate
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Author : Charles H. Talbot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

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The St Albans Psalter


The St Albans Psalter
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Author : Jane Geddes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

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The St Albans Psalter, made in the 1130s, is one of the great monuments of English Romanesque painting and has survived the disasters of religious upheaval and war in pristine condition. The sequence of forty full-page miniatures illustrating the Life of Christ establishes their artist, the so-called Alexis Master, as one of the most influential painters in early twelfth-century England. It includes 215 initials illustrating the psalms in a vigorously literal way. Their inventiveness and charm belie the complex theological and personal messages which they convey. This new book by Dr. Jane Geddes is the first to reproduce so much of the psalter in color, but it also fully integrates the psalter's contents into the historical context of its probable patron, Abbot Geoffrey of St Albans and its recipient, the Anglo-Saxon hermitess Christina of Markyate. Using a record of Christina's life, written by a St Albans monk, the book examines in depth every aspect of the psalter, tying it in closely to the lives of Christina of Markyate and Abbot Geoffrey. Through her close analysis, Geddes provides a profound insight into female literacy, Anglo-Norman relations, the organization of England's premier scriptorium, monk-nun relations and the emerging Anglo-Norman language. This new book demonstrates the significance of the St Albans Psalter, which in social terms is as important as the Bayeux Tapestry, crystallising the artistic, spiritual and emotional integration of Anglo-Saxons and Normans.



Christina Of Markyate


Christina Of Markyate
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Author : Jane Kelsall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

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Gold Of Pleasure


Gold Of Pleasure
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Author : Ruth Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

Gold Of Pleasure written by Ruth Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.


Christina of Markyate was a gifted twelfth-century English woman, whose visions brought her local fame and who once owned the renowned St Albans Psalter. As a young girl she refused the sexual advances of the Bishop of Durham and ran away from home rather than consummate a forced marriage. Christina was hidden for years by rural hermits, developed a passionate attachment for one of her rescuers, and finally achieved the religious life she had always wanted, as a Prioress. The Abbot of St Albans came to rely on her spiritual gifts and commissioned a biography of her, but was she the saint he thought her to be? In this carefully researched and insightful novel, Ruth Mohrman goes beyond the medieval account of Christina's life to imagine a woman who was many things at once. A lover of beautiful things who spent years in poverty, a divine seer bound by the past, a woman pledged to chastity who had intimate relationships with powerful men. Haunted by the secrets she was obliged to keep, in Gold of Pleasure Christina finally finds a measure of peace in the place she least expects



The St Albans Psalter


The St Albans Psalter
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Author : Kristen Collins
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2013

The St Albans Psalter written by Kristen Collins and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.


"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 20, 2013, to February 2, 2014"--Colophon.



A Medieval Woman S Companion


A Medieval Woman S Companion
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Author : Susan Signe Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2016

A Medieval Woman S Companion written by Susan Signe Morrison and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Describes the lives and achievements of virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today in fields dominated by men.



Christina Of Markyate


Christina Of Markyate
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Author : Charles H. Talbot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

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