How Cecilia Came to Be a Saint and Patron (Matron?) of Music
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
How Cecilia Came to Be a Saint and Patron (Matron?) of Music
- Published
- Blair Sullivan, ed. The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2004), pp. 3-18.
- Description
- Kelly traces Cecilia's entry into hagiographic tradition and compares details of various versions of the saint's legend, including the original "passio" and the versions by Jacobus a Voragine, Chaucer (SNT), Osbern Bokenham, and John Dryden. Also tallies references to Cecilia in late medieval tradition and tracks the growth of her status as patron saint of music Reprinted in Kelly's Law and Religion in Chaucer's England (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010).
- Contributor
- Sullivan, Blair, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations