A Maid with a Dragon: The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval England
About this ebook
The book examines Greek, Latin, Old English, Middle English and Anglo-Norman versions of Margaret's live, their mouvance and cultural context, providing editions of the hitherto unpublished texts. By considering these versions, the iconographic evidence, their patronage and audience, the monograph traces the changes of St Margaret's story through the eight centuries before the Reformation. The book also considers the further trajectory of the legend as reflected in popular fairy-tales and contemporary cultural stereotypes. Special attention is given to the interpretation of St Margaret's demonic encounter, central to the legend's iconography and theology.
About the author
Juliana Dresvina was born in Moscow, studied History, Philology and Theology at Moscow State University and Oxford before receiving her PhD in English from Cambridge in 2007. Following this she worked at Cambridge and King's College, London, as a medievalist historian; taught English at QMUL, Reading, Oxford and Winchester; held art history postdocs with the Paul Mellon Centre in London and National Institute for Art History in Paris. In 2011-14 she was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow with the Department of English at King's College London, and currently teaches medieval literature and medievalism at the Middlebury Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford.
