'Saint Jerome in a woman's dress': an anecdote from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age

Authors

  • María Jesús Lacarra Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.202074702

Keywords:

Lope de Vega, Belles Heures, iconography

Abstract

In the Golden Legend of Jacob of Voragine, there is an anecdote attributed to St. Jerome, to whom some envious clergymen left women's clothes in his cell to play a joke. The next morning, Jerome unknowingly entered the church for mass dressed in drag! The article traces this episode back to the Golden Age theatre, as well as its possible interpretations. Finally, an image is studied from the Belles Heures de Jean de France, duke of Berry, one of the most luxuriously illuminated manuscripts of the fifteenth century.

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Published

2020-10-18

How to Cite

Lacarra, M. J. (2020). ’Saint Jerome in a woman’s dress’: an anecdote from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (7), 955–964. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.202074702

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Section

Apothecary