This study edition contains both the translated texts of the Life of Saint Catherine and the Life of Saint Lawrence and commentaries upon them. The Life and Saint Catherine is an Anglo-Norman narrative by Clemence of Barking, one of the first women writing in Britain after the Norman Conquest. In her work, Clemence responds to the genre's representation of the torture of women and provides a role-model for her own medieval female community. The account of Catherine's life is complemented by an anonymous life of St Lawrence, ...
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This study edition contains both the translated texts of the Life of Saint Catherine and the Life of Saint Lawrence and commentaries upon them. The Life and Saint Catherine is an Anglo-Norman narrative by Clemence of Barking, one of the first women writing in Britain after the Norman Conquest. In her work, Clemence responds to the genre's representation of the torture of women and provides a role-model for her own medieval female community. The account of Catherine's life is complemented by an anonymous life of St Lawrence, a young martyr and object of particular devotion for medieval women in post-Conquest Britain.
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