Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 2004–2005: Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews
- Intertextual Play and the Game of Love: The Belle Dame sans mercy Cycle
- Hans Sachs’s Tragedy of the Last Judgment (1558): Eschatological Theater in Germany
- La traducción en el siglo XV: herramientas de trabajo, procedimientos, técnicas y métodos
- Doctor Johann Weyer (1515–88) and Witchcraft
- Christ’s Healing of the Lame Man in the York Cycle’s Entry into Jerusalem: Interpretive Challenges for the Newly Healed
- The German Collection of Saints’ Legends Der Maget Krone (1473–75): Contents, Commentary, and Evaluation of Current Research
- Malebouche, Metaphors of Misreading, and the Querelle des femmes in Jean Molinet’s Roman de la Rose moralisé (1500)
- The Physiognomy and Mental Equipment of a Late-Medieval Hangman: A Chapter in Anthropological Histor
- Laughter and Manhood in the Petit Jehan de Saintré (1456)
- The Pentangle Hypothesis: A Dating History and Resetting of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Bawcutt, Priscilla, ed. The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas, 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2003. Pp. lxxxvii; 347 (Goldstein).
- Chapuis, Julien, ed. Tilman Riemenschneider, c.1460–1531. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 264, 9x11. 206 b/w ill.+ 26 color (DuBruck).
- Giráldez, Susan. “Las Sergas de Esplandián” y la España de los Reyes Católicos. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 113 (Surtz).
- Huot, Sylvia. Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 224 (Gerulaitis).
- Nicholas, Nick, and George Baloglou. An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii; 557 (DuBruck).
- Raymo, Robert E., and Elaine E. Whitaker, eds. The Mirroure of the Worlde: A Middle English Translation of “Le Miroir du monde.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. x; 644 (Ruth).
- Thomas, Jacques T. E., ed. and tr. Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, ”La Vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury.” Louvain/Paris: Peeters, 2002. 2 vols. Pp. 352 and 422 (Szkilnik).
- Weidmann, Pia Holenstein, and Urs L. Gantenbein. Nova acta paracelsica: Beiträge zur Paracelsus-Forschung. Neue Folge 17. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 141 (DuBruck).
- Index to Articles in “Fifteenth-Century Studies,” Volumes 21–30
The German Collection of Saints’ Legends Der Maget Krone (1473–75): Contents, Commentary, and Evaluation of Current Research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Current State of Research on Late-Medieval Drama: 2004–2005: Survey, Bibliography, and Reviews
- Intertextual Play and the Game of Love: The Belle Dame sans mercy Cycle
- Hans Sachs’s Tragedy of the Last Judgment (1558): Eschatological Theater in Germany
- La traducción en el siglo XV: herramientas de trabajo, procedimientos, técnicas y métodos
- Doctor Johann Weyer (1515–88) and Witchcraft
- Christ’s Healing of the Lame Man in the York Cycle’s Entry into Jerusalem: Interpretive Challenges for the Newly Healed
- The German Collection of Saints’ Legends Der Maget Krone (1473–75): Contents, Commentary, and Evaluation of Current Research
- Malebouche, Metaphors of Misreading, and the Querelle des femmes in Jean Molinet’s Roman de la Rose moralisé (1500)
- The Physiognomy and Mental Equipment of a Late-Medieval Hangman: A Chapter in Anthropological Histor
- Laughter and Manhood in the Petit Jehan de Saintré (1456)
- The Pentangle Hypothesis: A Dating History and Resetting of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Bawcutt, Priscilla, ed. The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas, 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2003. Pp. lxxxvii; 347 (Goldstein).
- Chapuis, Julien, ed. Tilman Riemenschneider, c.1460–1531. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 264, 9x11. 206 b/w ill.+ 26 color (DuBruck).
- Giráldez, Susan. “Las Sergas de Esplandián” y la España de los Reyes Católicos. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 113 (Surtz).
- Huot, Sylvia. Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 224 (Gerulaitis).
- Nicholas, Nick, and George Baloglou. An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii; 557 (DuBruck).
- Raymo, Robert E., and Elaine E. Whitaker, eds. The Mirroure of the Worlde: A Middle English Translation of “Le Miroir du monde.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. x; 644 (Ruth).
- Thomas, Jacques T. E., ed. and tr. Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, ”La Vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury.” Louvain/Paris: Peeters, 2002. 2 vols. Pp. 352 and 422 (Szkilnik).
- Weidmann, Pia Holenstein, and Urs L. Gantenbein. Nova acta paracelsica: Beiträge zur Paracelsus-Forschung. Neue Folge 17. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 141 (DuBruck).
- Index to Articles in “Fifteenth-Century Studies,” Volumes 21–30
Summary
In Memory of Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld
Complete vernacular Bibles did not exist until the fifteenth century; yet, the spiritual needs of the German populace had to be met much earlier. Devotional materials in German were indeed available as early as 1150, and, above all, edifying narratives of exemplary holy figures (c.1300), based on the Legenda aurea (c.1265 — legenda, a gerund meaning saints’ lives to be read). Legendaries, circulated orally and in written form (first in verse, then in prose), became popular among the laity, monks, and cloistered women, especially the legends of the Virgin, Anne, Catherine, Barbara, Dorothy, and Margaret. The present essay intends to showcase a German legendary, study its authorship, sources, and influences, as well as give a description of four saints’ legends. Our tentative stemma follows this article's text.
“Der Maget Krone”: General Observations
The title of this verse legendary, The Crown of the Virgin (or Virgins), refers to the Virgin Mary's and the Virgin Martyrs’ each receiving a martyr and virginity crown from God in the form of a Marienpreis (laudatory poem to Mary), and a Marienleben (life of Mary); the legendary contains twelve “Legends of the Virgin Martyrs.” These saints are Katharina, Barbara, Dorothea, Margareta, Ursula, Agathe, Agnes, Lucia, Caecilia, Cristina, Anastasia, and Juliana. Intended as a monograph for the daily Tischlesung (reading at mealtime to nuns in a cloister), these approximately 8,400 verses were composed by a Cistercian nun soon after the first printing of the South German Heiligenleben (147l/1472) in Augsburg (manuscript from c.1405–20). The legends borrowed partially from Latin sources (such as the Ave Maria and the Legenda aurea) and from legends already in verse, for example, Barbara — which by 1425 had been preserved as a single legend in Konstanz — as well as from a manuscript of the Alsatian Legenda aurea (c.1450) as a major source, together with the Heiligenleben (c.1420; published 1996, vol. 1; 2003, vol. 2). Catherine is now lost, Barbara has some 650 verses, Dorothy c.450, and Margaret c. 280 verses.
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- Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 31 , pp. 106 - 122Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006