Women of the Gilte Legende: A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives

by Larissa Tracy

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, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859917711
• ISBN13: 9780859917711
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: D.S. Brewer
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.9"