Corpus Hernani Britannicus La Dame De Chez Maxim

women, Saint Gilles, healer of the sick, or Saint Marie l’Égyptienne, the penitent prostitute who lived out her days as a hermit. While most surviving texts revived martyrs long dead (Alexis died in the fifth century and Gilles in the seventh), the corpus includes THE MIDDLE AGES 7 biographies of contemporary holy men, notably the 6,000-line Vie de Saint Thomas, written by Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence within five years of the murder of Thomas à Beckett in 1170. While accounts of Biblical