[All]: Limbs pierced by red-hot nails are frequent in medieval European vision literature. See, e.g., St Patrick’s Purgatory (Easting 1991, 52-3, 131), the Revelation of the Monk of Evesham (Easting 2002, 44-5) and Visio Thurkilli (Schmidt 1978, 21).
References
- Bibliography
- Easting, Robert, ed. 1991. St Patrick’s Purgatory: Two Versions of Owayne Miles and the Vision of William of Stranton Together with the Long Text of the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii. Early English Text Society, Original Ser. 298. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Easting, Robert, ed. 2002. The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham. Early English Text Society, Original Ser. 318. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Schmidt, Paul Gerhard, ed. 1978. Visio Thurkilli, relatore, ut videtur, Radulpho de Coggeshall. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Leipzig: Teubner.