Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I: A Study of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604

by Veronica O'Mara

Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns provides a study and critical edition of a unique late fifteenth-century manuscript, Cambridge University Library Additional MS 2604. Catalogued only in 2009 and virtually unknown to scholars, this manuscript contains a collection of prose saints' lives translated from Latin into Middle English. The focus on female saints associated with the Benedictine order appears to indicate an audience of Benedictine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503545513
• ISBN13: 9782503545516
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.