09 — Legacy and Reception

The afterlife of the cult and the scholarship that grounds the collection: Catherine’s enormous medieval popularity and its later fortunes (the 1969 Roman calendar removal and 2002 restoration), and the modern academic study — Walsh, Lewis, Jenkins, and the Golden Legend as the great Western transmission witness. This section closes the collection with its reception history and its sources per METHODOLOGY §2.3.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (Great-Martyr)

This closing section sets the cult in its long reception and names the scholarship behind the whole collection. The Medieval Popularity treats the cult at its zenith — one of the most venerated saints of the late Middle Ages — and the modern Roman Catholic reckoning with the historicity problem: the 1969 removal from the universal calendar and the 2002 restoration as an optional memorial. Modern Scholarship surveys the academic study — Christine Walsh on the early cult, Katherine J. Lewis on the late-medieval English cult, the Jenkins and Lewis essay collection, and Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend as transmission witness — and states the stable scholarly picture the collection adopts.

Section Contents

• The Medieval Popularity — her enormous medieval cult; the Reformation; the 1969 Roman calendar removal and the 2002 restoration
• Modern Scholarship — Walsh, Lewis, and Jenkins; the Golden Legend as transmission witness; the state of the question

See Also

• The Spread of the Cult — how the cult reached its medieval height
• The Absence of Early Evidence — the historicity problem the 1969 removal acted on
• The Source Problem — the source-critical frame grounded in this scholarship
• The Developing Legend — the Golden Legend and the legend’s growth
• METHODOLOGY.md — §2.3 on citing secondary scholarship

References

• Walsh, Christine. The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Early Medieval Europe. Ashgate, 2007.
• Lewis, Katherine J. The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England. Boydell, 2000.
• Jenkins, Jacqueline, and Katherine J. Lewis, eds. St Katherine of Alexandria: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe. Brepols, 2003.
• Jacobus de Voragine. The Golden Legend, c. 1260. Trans. W. G. Ryan. Princeton University Press, 1993.