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The purpose of this thesis is twofold. Part I demonstrates how Dominican abbreviated legendaries of the thirteenth century limited discussions of pain experienced by the saints when compared to earlier lives of the same saints, while Part II provides possible explanations for this trend. Part II suggests possible reasons why the Dominican texts seem to diminish narratives of pain but concludes that the most pressing cause for this trend is linked with Dominican theories of Christology. Beginning in the mid-thirteenth century, Dominican theological treatises, such as the Sentences Commentaries of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas come to argue that Christ's pain was greater than any anguish experienced by a saint. These commentaries were influential in the training of new Dominican preachers and it is possible, perhaps probable, that the authors of the legendaries were familiar with their content. This is most easily discerned in the Legenda aurea, which resonates closely with Thomas Aquinas' discussion of the severity of Christ's pain, even as it diminishes narratives of pain in other saints' lives. Part II concludes with the suggestion that the Dominican spiritual and intellectual milieu of the mid thirteenth century was responsible both for the increased emphasis upon Christ's pain in Dominican authored Sentences commentaries and the diminished narratives of saintly pain found in their legendaries. To establish that Dominican legendaries such as Bartholomew of Trent's Liber epilogorum in gesta sanctorum, Jean de Mailly's Abbreviatio in gestis et miraculis sanctorum, Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale, and Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea diminished narratives of suffering, a number of lives contained within them were contrasted with their possible sources. By comparing the number of allusions to pain in earlier lives to those in the legendaries, and by investigating certain deletions and additions in the Dominican authored lives that mitigate the saint's experience of pain, Part I demonstrates that the legendaries do limit some portrayals of suffering.

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Narratives of (non) Suffering in Dominican Legendaries [microform] : Exploration and Explanations by Donna Christine Trembinski is 744 pages long, and a total of 188,976 words.

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