Wace, The Hagiographical Works

Jean Blacker, Ph.D. (1984) in Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley, is Emerita Professor of French at Kenyon College. She has published on twelfth-century French and Latin historiography including Wace, Anglo-Norman prophecy and textual criticism.Glyn S. Burgess, B.A., M.A. (Oxon), Docteur de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne) (1968), Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively on medieval French language and literature, his principal interests being Wace, short narrative and the legend of St Brendan.Amy V. Ogden, Ph.D. (2001) in Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia. Her current research focuses on medieval French hagiography, manuscripts and new technologies.

• General Introduction1. The Conception Nostre DameIntroductionText and TranslationNotes2. The Life of St MargaretIntroductionText and TranslationNotesNotes to Keller’s Text3. The Life of St Nicholas IntroductionText and TranslationNotesGeneral ConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex IIndex II

“This is a splendid and very useful volume, of interest to those working on vernacular literature, hagiography, history, liturgy and spirituality.” Mary Clayton, University College Dublin. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 65, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 660-661.‘’There is much here […] to interest scholars of all stripes […] this volume will surely prove a valuable teaching resource, and the case it makes for introducing Wace’s hagiographical works to a broader audience is a highly persuasive one’’.Huw Grange, University of Cambridge. In: Modern Language Reviews, 109, Part 3, 2014, p. 797.‘’This is a very welcome edition and translation of Wace’s lesser-known works: The Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas are excellent sources for folklorists and other scholars of medieval religious narrative and popular religion.’’David Elton Gay, Indiana University Bloomington. In: Fabula, 55, 3-4, 2014, p.329.