The Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England. (Reviews of Books).

Katherine J. Lewis. The Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England. Rochester: Boydell and Brewer. 2000. Pp. xviii, 286. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-773-4.

This book, the product of a York D. Phil. thesis, provides the first full-length study of an individual saint cult in late medieval England. Unlike most studies of its kind, Katherine Lewis's is unable to draw on evidence from a popular shrine or from a set of miracle stories; although considered an English saint, the focus of St. Katherine's cult was always Mount Sinai where she was believed to have been buried. In ...

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