Legend of Holy Women: Theology

(Part of the Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture Series)

by Osbern Bokenham

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Sheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, 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. As Delany writes in her comprehensive...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0268012954

ISBN13:9780268012953

Release Date:December 1992

Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.6" x 9.2"

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