- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
1 The legend is born: early Greek, Latin, and insular versions -
2 Thirteenth-century anonymous Margaret poems and their later redactions -
3 Sanctae Margaretae, virginis et martyris: Latin texts of the later Middle Ages and their derivatives -
4 The St Margaret of the preachers -
5 St Margaret on the stage -
6 East Anglian Margarets: Lydgate, Bokenham, and the Harley 4012 compiler -
7 A prose life of St Margaret in Bodleian MS Eng. th. e. 18 -
8 Evidence for the cult of St Margaret in late medieval England -
9 Virginity, sexuality, and temptation -
10 Done to death: the torture of St Margaret in historical perspective -
11 The significance of the demonic episode in the legend of St Margaret -
12 Iconography of St Margaret -
Epilogue St Margaret’s afterlife -
Appendix 1 Medieval lives of St Margaret -
Appendix 2 Examples of the images of St Margaret in different media -
Appendix 3 Descriptions of the dragon and demon in different versions of the life of St Margaret, and the appearance of the dragon in artistic representations -
Appendix 4 Pictorial cycles of the life of St Margaret, English and Continental - Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
East Anglian Margarets: Lydgate, Bokenham, and the Harley 4012 compiler
East Anglian Margarets: Lydgate, Bokenham, and the Harley 4012 compiler
- Chapter:
- (p.110) 6 East Anglian Margarets: Lydgate, Bokenham, and the Harley 4012 compiler
- Source:
- A Maid with a Dragon
- Author(s):
Juliana Dresvina
- Publisher:
- British Academy
Given that the cult of St Margaret was particularly strong in the East Anglian region (a quarter of all church dedications to St Margaret in England are found in Norfolk and Margaret was the most popular late-medieval name in that region), it is unsurprising that fifteenth-century East Anglia engendered three lives of St Margaret, commissioned by local patrons: by John Lydgate, by Osbern Bokenham, and by a compiler of MS BL Harley 4012, which used to belong to Anne Harling of East Harling. Chapter 6 discusses their sources, context, patrons, special features, and manuscripts.
Keywords: East Anglia, John Lydgate, Osbern Bokenham, Anne Harling, patronage, manuscript, Norfolk, East Harling, the Pastons
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
1 The legend is born: early Greek, Latin, and insular versions -
2 Thirteenth-century anonymous Margaret poems and their later redactions -
3 Sanctae Margaretae, virginis et martyris: Latin texts of the later Middle Ages and their derivatives -
4 The St Margaret of the preachers -
5 St Margaret on the stage -
6 East Anglian Margarets: Lydgate, Bokenham, and the Harley 4012 compiler -
7 A prose life of St Margaret in Bodleian MS Eng. th. e. 18 -
8 Evidence for the cult of St Margaret in late medieval England -
9 Virginity, sexuality, and temptation -
10 Done to death: the torture of St Margaret in historical perspective -
11 The significance of the demonic episode in the legend of St Margaret -
12 Iconography of St Margaret -
Epilogue St Margaret’s afterlife -
Appendix 1 Medieval lives of St Margaret -
Appendix 2 Examples of the images of St Margaret in different media -
Appendix 3 Descriptions of the dragon and demon in different versions of the life of St Margaret, and the appearance of the dragon in artistic representations -
Appendix 4 Pictorial cycles of the life of St Margaret, English and Continental - Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
