This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea

Gilte Legende is a translation (1438) of Jean de Vignay's Legende Dorée itself a translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legende Dorée which was one of the most

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings

This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton.