The 'amewsing' story of Paston's cat

The Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio (c. 1486) Religious chronicles are an art form, a savant mélange of erudition, rhetoric, and narrative-fashioning to guide readers towards the desired response, usually admiration, compassion, and the desire to emulate the chaste and saintly lives of the nuns depicted. To achieve those goals, some rely more or less heavily upon narratives of supernatural occurrences, such as miraculous cures, or raptures and visions; others prefer to emphasize the regu...