Eine Heilige in Gesellschaft: Formen der Kooperation in der ›Legende von Prothus und Hyacinthus‹ bei Jacobus von Voragine, der Lichtenthaler Schreiberin Regula und Gottfried Keller

Abstract This paper explores variations in portrayals of cooperation and friendship in legends of martyrs, focussing on the ›The Legend of Saints Protus and Hyacinth‹ in different historical contexts. When adapting the legend in the fifteenth-century, the compiler and copyist Sister Regula amended the standard ›Legenda Aurea‹ version by introducing an additional plot line recounting cooperation between two female martyrs. In turn, in the nineteenth century, the Swiss author Gottfried Keller dismissed the notion of spiritual friendship altogether and replaced it with the ideal of a hierarchical relationship between spouses.