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11%OFFSheila Delany - Legend Of Holy Women: Theology (ND Texts Medieval Culture) - 9780268012953 - V9780268012953
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Legend Of Holy Women: Theology (ND Texts Medieval Culture)

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Description for Legend Of Holy Women: Theology (ND Texts Medieval Culture) Paperback. A translation of Osbern Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Series: Mediaeval Studies: Sources & Appraisals S. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Mediaeval Studies: Sources & Appraisals S.
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268012953
SKU
V9780268012953
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About Sheila Delany
Dr. Sheila Delany is an emerita professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews for Legend Of Holy Women: Theology (ND Texts Medieval Culture)
"We must be grateful to Ms. Delany for the assiduity of her well-researched and perceptive study of the life and works of this little known clerical poet." —Times Literary Supplement "The present translation is smooth and readable. It is based on the 1938 EETS edition of the Legendys of Hooly Wummen by Mary Serjeantson.... On the whole this is an ... Read more

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