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Legends of Holy Women

[Hardback]

by Osbern Bokenham, Sheila Delany

    • Authors

      Osbern Bokenham +1

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      University of Notre Dame Press

    • Published

      December 1992

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      Legends of Holy Women

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      Product Description

      Sheila Delany's 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 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 introduction, "Bokenham gives us not only an all-female hagiography - an authorial decision significant in its own right - but a gallery of powerful, articulate women who are indubitably worthy to do God's work. Some of them are well-educated, some give sound political advice to a monarch, some preach, converting hundreds and thousands to Christianity, some walk on water or perform resurrection. Nor are they pacifists; on the contrary, they call for divinely inflicted vengeance and approve violence in their cause." Delany argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" provided a principle of selection and of arrangement for Bokenham's array of saints.She suggests further that the friar's choice of all-female hagiography, and his poetic representation of holy women, are closely linked to patronage and politics in 15th-century England. The translation is accompanied by full notes, which, along with the introduction, make the book accessible to a wide audience. It should appeal to all readers interested in the representation of women in late-medieval culture as well as to scholars and students in medieval, renaissance, religious, and women's studies.

      Specification

      • Authors

        Osbern Bokenham +1

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        University of Notre Dame Press

      • Published

        December 1992

      • Weight

        477g

      • Page Count

        240

      • Dimensions

        153 x 230 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9780268012946

      • ISBN-10

        0268012946

      • Eden Code

        1191055

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      • ISBN: 9780268012946

      • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

      • Release Date: December 1992

      • Weight: 477g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 1191055

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