Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends [Hardcover]

This entertaining anthology of sixteen stories, authored between 1200 and 1485, were originally tailored towards a secular audience. Most of the martyrs are spirited teenage girls, preyed upon by men, in some cases by their father, and subjected to imaginative and horrific punishments with a surprising lack of pain. Saints include Margaret, Lucy, Katherine, Agnes, Winifrid and the unusual Eugenia who lived disguised as a monk and was accused of rape. The stories are drawn from across Britain by authors including Chaucer and Lydgate and have been translated into modern English.This entertaining anthology of sixteen stories, authored between 1200 and 1485, were originally tailored towards a secular audience. Most of the martyrs are spirited teenage girls, preyed upon by men, in some cases by their father, and subjected to imaginative and horrific punishments with a surprising lack of pain.