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Gilte Legende, Volume 3
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Gilte Legende, Volume 3 Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Richard Hamer


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Gilte Legende is, for the most part a close translation 'drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe' made in 1438 from Jean de Vignay's Legende doree, a French version, made c. 1433, of Jacobus de Voragine's enormously influential collection of saints' lives, Legenda aurea (c. 1267). Legenda aurea, a source book for all the major Christian stories of holy men and women, was a standard work throughout the later Middle ages, read throughout Western Europe, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the ecclesiastical history, literature, and art history of the period. This Middle English translation is the first of two independent versions that were made in the fifteenth century, the second by Caxton. The editor proposes that the translator of this version may have been Dame Eleanor Hull, the first woman translator into English whose name is known, and whose Commentary on the Penitential Psalms was published by EETS as O.S. 307 (1995).The present volume, containing the
Introduction, Explanatory Notes, Glossary and Index, completes the EETS's three-volume edition Gilte Legende, which begun with O.S. 327 and 328.

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  • Title Gilte Legende, Volume 3
  • Author Richard Hamer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 550
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press (UK), 2012. 550p. Hardback. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series.
  • Date 2012-11
  • ISBN 9780199668175 / 0199668175
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Christian saints, Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015302203
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author


Richard Hamer is an Emeritus Student of Christ Church College, Oxford, and former Tutor in English Language and Literature.
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