Las vidas occitanas de santas tardomedievales

Sacra infantia, formación e imitación

Bibliographic Data

ID21246598
AuthorsSergi Sancho Fibla (0000-0003-0151-5404, University of Padua, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume10
Pages337-368
Publication date2023-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMagnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2386-8295 • E-ISSN: 2386-8295
PublisherUniversitat de Valencia (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.7203/mclm.10.26065
OpenAlexW4389445130
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited9

This article focuses on the analysis of four texts that have had little impact on the study of late medieval spirituality and that have never been worked on as a single corpus: the lives written in Occitan about women with the reputation of saints who lived between the 13th and 14th centuries: Doucelina de Dinha (d.1274 ), a Beguine of Robaut; Biatrix d’Ornaciu (d.1303), a Carthusian nun of Permagni; Dalphina de Pugmichel (d.1360), a mulier religiosa close to the Franciscans of Apt; and Flor d’Issendolus (d.1347), a Hospitaller of the Order of St. John. These are the only testimonies of a phenomenon that spread between the 13th and 16th centuries in different European areas and that Gabriella Zarri has called sante vive: women considered as saints by the society of their time even though they had not been canonized. Part of the dissemination of the cult of these women was through the writing of their lives, whose models followed established patterns in terms of structure and literary tropes

Art · Humanities · Early Modern Women Writers · Medieval European Literature and History · Medieval Literature and History

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