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Vie de seinte MargueriteCentury: 13
Hagiography
French
Dioc. Cambrai
INCIPIT
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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 5303-5305) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (303-311 +). She was the daughter of a pagan priest but raised as a Christian by her nurse. Due to her upbringing she refused the marriage proposal of the pagan prefect Olybrius. Because of the fact that she proved herself by this act not willingly to renounce her faith Olybrius arrested and condemned her to several tortures. Different attempts have been made in vain to drown or burn the young virgin. During her stay in prison Margaret experienced numerous miraculous incidents. According to legend a devil disguised in the form of a dragon appeared, which devoured her but immediately spat Margaret back as she made a sign of the cross. Eventually, After a series of cruel torments Margaret was killed by decapitation.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Sainte-Geneviève, bibliotheek
Sainte-Geneviève, bibliotheek
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 414 (fragment)
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 241-245 (fragment)
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 241-245 (fragment)
LITERATURE
ALBERT (J.-P.), 'La légende de Sainte Marguerite un mythe maïeutique?', Razo: Cahiers du Centre d'études médiévales de Nice 8(1988) 19-35
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 5303-5305
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1358
DRESVINA (J.), 'The significance of the demonic episode in the legend of St Margaret of Antioch', Medium Aevum, 81 (2012) 189-209
EGILSDÓTTIR (A.), 'St Margaret, patroness of childbirth', in: R. Simek, W. Heizmann (eds.), Mythological Women: Studies in Memory of Lotte Motz 1922-1997 (Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia) (Wien, 2002) 319-330
HILL (C.), ''Leave my virginity alone': the cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Norwich: in pursuit of a pragmatic piety', in: C. Harper-Bill (ed.), Medieval East Anglia (Woodbridge, 2005) 225-245
KELLER (H.E.), Wace. La vie de sainte Marguerite (Tübingen, 1990)
LARSON (W.R.), 'The role of patronage and audience in the cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch', in: S.E.J. Riches, S. Salih (eds.), Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, 1) (London, 2002)
LARSON (W.R.), 'Who Is the Master of This Narrative? Maternal Patronage of the Cult of St. Margaret', in: M.C. Erler, M. Kowaleski (eds.), Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Ithaca) 94-104
LEGGE (M.D.), Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background (Oxford, 1963) 258
LEWIS (K.J.), 'Lete me Suffre': reading the torture of St. Margaret of Antioch in late medieval England.', in: J. Wogan-Browne, E. Al. (eds.), Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, 2000) 69-82
LEWIS (K.J.), 'The life of St. Margaret of Antioch in late medieval England: a gendered reading.', Studies in church history, 34 (1998) 129-142
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 180-189
ROBERTSON (E.), 'The corporeality of female sanctity in The Life of Saint Margaret.', in: R. Blumenfeld-Kosinski, T. Szell (eds.), Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, 1991) 268-287
SMITH (K. P.), 'Snake-maiden transformation narratives in hagiography and folklore', Fabula, 43 (2002) 251-263
SPENCER (F.), 'The Legend of St. Margaret', Modern Language Notes, 4 (1889) 392-402
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 560-561
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 5303-5305
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1358
DRESVINA (J.), 'The significance of the demonic episode in the legend of St Margaret of Antioch', Medium Aevum, 81 (2012) 189-209
EGILSDÓTTIR (A.), 'St Margaret, patroness of childbirth', in: R. Simek, W. Heizmann (eds.), Mythological Women: Studies in Memory of Lotte Motz 1922-1997 (Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia) (Wien, 2002) 319-330
HILL (C.), ''Leave my virginity alone': the cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Norwich: in pursuit of a pragmatic piety', in: C. Harper-Bill (ed.), Medieval East Anglia (Woodbridge, 2005) 225-245
KELLER (H.E.), Wace. La vie de sainte Marguerite (Tübingen, 1990)
LARSON (W.R.), 'The role of patronage and audience in the cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch', in: S.E.J. Riches, S. Salih (eds.), Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, 1) (London, 2002)
LARSON (W.R.), 'Who Is the Master of This Narrative? Maternal Patronage of the Cult of St. Margaret', in: M.C. Erler, M. Kowaleski (eds.), Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Ithaca) 94-104
LEGGE (M.D.), Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background (Oxford, 1963) 258
LEWIS (K.J.), 'Lete me Suffre': reading the torture of St. Margaret of Antioch in late medieval England.', in: J. Wogan-Browne, E. Al. (eds.), Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, 2000) 69-82
LEWIS (K.J.), 'The life of St. Margaret of Antioch in late medieval England: a gendered reading.', Studies in church history, 34 (1998) 129-142
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 180-189
ROBERTSON (E.), 'The corporeality of female sanctity in The Life of Saint Margaret.', in: R. Blumenfeld-Kosinski, T. Szell (eds.), Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, 1991) 268-287
SMITH (K. P.), 'Snake-maiden transformation narratives in hagiography and folklore', Fabula, 43 (2002) 251-263
SPENCER (F.), 'The Legend of St. Margaret', Modern Language Notes, 4 (1889) 392-402
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 560-561
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Update:
2014-03-19 11:20:55
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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer
Update:
2014-03-19 11:20:55
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed July 6th 2025).
