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Tells the story of the martyr Saint Catherine, who ruled Alexandria as a Christian.

The fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Alexandria, who was an anomalous cultural i

St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study

"It was a cruel invention, this wheel. A wheel that forced submission from those beneath it..."Young Katherine, born into noble wealth with an insatiable hunger

This collection presents-through the medium of translated sources-a comprehensive guide to the development of hagiography and the cult of the saints in western