Legend of Holy Women: Theology

by Osbern Bokenham

Book Overview

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"