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English Readers of Catholic Saints - The Printing History of William Caxton's Golden Legend (Hardcover)
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English Readers of Catholic Saints - The Printing History of William Caxton's Golden Legend (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language
books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most
well-known collection of saints' lives in Europe. This study
analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that
powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications included not
only illustrations and changes in the arrangement of chapters, but
also the addition of lives of British saints and translated
excerpts from the Bible, showing an appetite for vernacular
scripture and stories about England's past. The publication history
of Caxton's Golden Legend reveals attitudes towards national
identity and piety within the context of English print culture
during the half century prior to the Henrician Reformation.
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