Katherine Group

English literary works

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Katherine Group, a group of five Middle English prose devotional works dating from c. 1180 to 1210. It consists of accounts of the lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret, and Juliana (found together in a single manuscript) and two treatises, “Hali Meidenhad” (“Holy Maidenhood”) and “Sawles Warde” (“The Guardianship of the Soul”). They were all written near Herefordshire (in the Welsh borderland), and a single author may have written more than one of the works.

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