Del 356 - Early English Text Society Original Series

Osbern Bokenham

Lives of the Saints

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvSimon Horobin,University of Oxford) Horobin, Simon (Professor of English Language and Literature

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This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham. Unknown before the discovery of the unique manuscript in 2005, Bokenham's work comprises a complete translation of Legenda Aurea, a collection of saints' lives compiled by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Voragine which achieved widespread popularity throughout the Middle Ages and survives in over eight hundred manuscripts, supplemented with accounts of the lives of various British saints, including those of Cedde, Felix, Edward, and Oswald. Writing in the fifteenth century, Bokenham's work, which combines prose and verse, was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, both in its content and in its verse forms and style, and thus sheds new light on their fifteenth-century reputation. Bokenham's work is also important for his naming of the patrons for whom he translated a number of these saints' lives, allowing scholars to trace networks of patronage amongst prominent members of the gentry and nobility in fifteenth-century East Anglia.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-27
Mått148 x 222 x 40 mm
Vikt722 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEarly English Text Society Original Series
Antal sidor502
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198867975

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Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013), and books on the history of English, and the language of Chaucer.

IntroductionAdventAndrewBarbaraLucyThomas ApostleNativity of our LordAnastasiaStevenJohn The EvangelistInnocentsThomas of CanterburySilvesterCircumcision of Our LordMartinaBasilEpiphanyPaul HermitRemigiusHilariusMacariusFelix of NolaMaurusMacrellusPriscaAnthony AbbotWulfstanMarius, Martha, Audifax, and AbacukFabianSebastianAgnesVincentJohn AlmonerConversion of PaulPaulaJulianusCyrus and JohnSeptuagesimaSexagesimaQuinquagesimaQuadragesimaPurification of Our LadyBlaiseGilbertAgathaDorothyWilliam The HermitVedastusAmandusApolloniaScholasticaValentineJulianaPeter's ChairMatthiasDavidCeddeThomas AquinasFelix of DunwichGregoryLonginusPatrickBenedictAnnunciationPassion of Our LordResurrection

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