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Vie de sainte AgnèsCentury: 13
Hagiography
French
Dioc. Cambrai
INCIPIT
prol: Tuit devons graces et loenges rendre a nostre seigneur Jhesucrit des seintes virges et des passions que eles soufrirent
EXPLICIT
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Sex: M- Bio: -Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)
EDITING
Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français') (BHL 0156) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
Biography of S. Agnes (+ ca 293-305). She was a Christian virgin of Rome who refused to marry. As a punishment, she was placed in a brothel where her hear covered and protected her entire body. Then she was unsuccessfully placed on the stake and eventually slain with an awl.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 282-285 (fragment)
LITERATURE
BAERT (B.), 'Mantle, fur, pallium: veiling and unveiling in the martyrdom of Agnes of Rome', in: K.M. Rudy, B. Baert (eds.), Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing: Textiles and their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages., Medieval Church Studies (Turnhout, 2007) 215-238
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 0156
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1352
BOSSUAT (R.), Manuel Bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge (Melun, 1951) nrs. 3397-3399, 5815-5818; 7003
CASPERS (C.), 'Sint Agnes als katalysator. Een jonge Romeinse martelares vertelt over de spiritualiteit van de zusters van Diepenveen', Trajecta, 11 (2002) 18-40
JUBARU (F.), Sainte Agnès (Paris, 1909)
MUIR (C. D.), 'St Agnes of Rome as a bride of Christ: a northern European phenomenon', Simiolus, 31 (2005) 134-155
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992)
THOMPSON (A.B.), 'The Legend of St. Agnes: improvisation and the practice of hagiography.', Exemplaria, 13 (2001) 355-397
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 25-26
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 0156
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1352
BOSSUAT (R.), Manuel Bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge (Melun, 1951) nrs. 3397-3399, 5815-5818; 7003
CASPERS (C.), 'Sint Agnes als katalysator. Een jonge Romeinse martelares vertelt over de spiritualiteit van de zusters van Diepenveen', Trajecta, 11 (2002) 18-40
JUBARU (F.), Sainte Agnès (Paris, 1909)
MUIR (C. D.), 'St Agnes of Rome as a bride of Christ: a northern European phenomenon', Simiolus, 31 (2005) 134-155
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992)
THOMPSON (A.B.), 'The Legend of St. Agnes: improvisation and the practice of hagiography.', Exemplaria, 13 (2001) 355-397
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 25-26
LINKS
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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer
Update:
2014-04-09 14:07:44
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed July 6th 2025).
Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer
Update:
2014-04-09 14:07:44
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed July 6th 2025).
