A Legend of Holy Women Osbern Bokenham Legends of Holy Women
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Publish date: 07/01/1992
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"This book is...a fascinating read with insight into the representation of women in the late Middle Ages, and a peek into the life of their chatty fifteenth-century biography". -- The Catholic World
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Sheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography, closely translated from Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose. A Legend of Holy Women contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history.
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