Description: Gaposchkin presents previously untranslated texts that informed medieval views of St. Louis IX.
Brief description:
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is associate professor of history at Dartmouth College.
Review Quotes:
"With this collection of Latin texts and facing page English translations, Cecilia Gaposchkin and Phyllis Katz offer a valuable treasure to scholars and students of medieval Europe--the hagiographic, liturgical, and homiletic texts that actually played a role in shaping the memory of the sainted king of France, Louis IX. For too long, we have been mesmerized by the eloquent words of the privileged noble, Jean de Joinville, whose memoir had no impact at all during the Middle Ages. Gaposchkin and Katz help to break Joinville's spell, and thus to place us much closer to the ways in which late medieval people perceived and remembered Saint Louis." --Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara