The Passion of St Katherine of Alexandria
Chronopoulos, Tina
How and why did the story of St Katherine's passion, which did not generate a particularly exceptional devotion in Byzantium during the final centuries of the first millennium, end up transplanted to the fertile religious environment of eleventh-century Normandy? This study contends that Katherine's appeal to the Normans is rooted in her relative obscurity and verisimilar resemblances to early martyrs, and that the very early texts already con...
