This fascinating and ample collection of studies of the life of a medieval extraordinary woman. Cristina de Markyate made vote of abstention to an early age, against desires of its parents, whom she tries that one marries. When forced to contract marriage, she fled disguised and she went underground, receiving refuge in a network of hermitages. Christina became an inmate religious and, finally, it founded a convent of nuns encloses to St. Albans. Samuel Fanous and Leyser Henrietta to present/display a vivid interdisciplinary study dedicated to the life, the existing work and bollard of Cristina de Markyate, who is based on the investigation of an ample range of disciplines. The main subjects have been selected in an approach balanced and global, that cover timeless subjects, like the monacato and eremiticisim, as well as subjects of the present time in the medieval investigation, like the sort questions. The book begins with an introduction to the readers to person and the life of Christina, its configuration in a cultural, social and religious context, and the presentation of the literary antecedents of the life of Cristina de Markyate. The following chapters examine subjects such as the two traditions of the martyrdom, ascetic virgin and, and the alignment of Christina with both, the presentation of the sanctity and the sexual temptation in century XII, and a study of the phenomena of hermits and anchorets. The book also includes a kind reading of the bollard, revealing its qualities markedly hagiographal, and a debate on the drama of the initials in the Salterio of San Alban and what this reveals on the relation between Cristina and Geoffrey Abbot. Beautifully illustrated, this book offers to the students who regularly are Christina with an investigation compendium of which she stops to begin his studies, and introduces Christina to a ampler public.

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