Appendix to Ep. 120: Some Sts. Valentines’ Lives

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In this prelude appendix to our episode on saint’s lives, we hear versions of the life of St. Valentine from three different medieval sources.

Today’s Texts:

• First English edition of the Nuremberg chronicle: being the Liber chronicarum of Dr. Hartmann Schedel. Edited and translated by Kosta Hadavas, U of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 2023, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/3SXNV3NHBQLFQ8J [used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]
• Jacobus de Voragine. “Life of S. Valentine.” In The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints. Translated by William Caxton, edited by F.S. Ellis, vol. 3, J.M. Dent, 1900, pp. 42-45. Google Books.
• Bede. Martyrologium de Natalitiis Sanctorum. In Patrologia Latina, edited by J.-P. Migne, vol. 94, col. 840A-842B, 1862. Google Books.

References:

• Pearse, Roger. “The Earliest Mentions of St Valentine.” 17 Feb. 2022, https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2022/02/17/the-earliest-mentions-of-st-valentine/#awef_ident_10_33262

Image Credit: A medallion of Claudius Gothicus, ca. 269 C.E., photo by Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (CC BY-SA 2.5) via Wikimedia.