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Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends.(Review)
Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends, ed. and trans. Karen A. Winstead (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 201 pp.; 7 figures. ISBN 0-8014-3569-2, $39.95 (hard covers); 0-8014-8557-6, $16.95 (p/b). The volume contains translations of the Katherine Group St Juliana, the lives of Agatha, Lucy, Justine, and Barbara from the South English Legendary, Anastasia from the North English ...
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