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Legend of Holy Women, A - A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women (Hardcover)
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Legend of Holy Women, A - A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women (Hardcover)
Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture
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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 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 fifteenth-century England. The
translation is accompanied by full notes which, along with the
introduction, make the book accessible to a wide audience. It will
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.
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