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Article: Vitae sanctae Katharinae
- Article from:
- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Katharine of Alexandria and Elisabeth of Hungary may seem at first to share little beyond accredited sanctity and the coincidence of these recent editions of the lives. Katharine appears on the hagiographic scene only five or six hundred years after her supposed existence. She was allegedly martyred at Alexandria sometime in the fourth century, and the first known text of her legend occurs in the Menologion, written for the Emperor Basil II c. 1000. Katharine is here already learned - she worsts fifty sages and is beheaded for her pains - but in its elaboration the story still has far to go; notably, there is as yet no mention of the wheel built as an instrument with which ...
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