Saint Mary Of Egypt
Three Medieval Lives in Verse
Ronald Pepin translator Hugh Feiss, OSB translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Liturgical Press
Published:1st Jun '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The saintly austerities of Mary of Egypt so impressed early monks that they recorded her life to edify their brethren. Many versions circulated and the tale traveled from Palestine to Europe, from Greek to Latin to French to Spanish, from prose to poetry, from hagiography to literature, and from the monastery into the world outside. Here we see Mary through the eyes of three medieval poets: Flodoard, a canon of Reims († 966), Hildebert of Lavardin, a bishop, († 1134), and an Anonymous Spaniard.
In their introduction, Feiss and Pepin do an excellent job of putting together the background and first context of the story.The Catholic Historical Review
The primary value of this book thus lies in the translations it provides of the three medieval poems on St. Mary of Egypt. By offering these poems together in one volume, Pepin and Feiss have afforded readers the welcome opportunity to compare differing versions of a single saint's story.The Medieval Review
ISBN: 9780879072094
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
Weight: 198g
170 pages