A Legend of Holy Women - A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women - Sheila Delany - Paperback Bog - University of Notre Dame Press -

Description

A translation of Osbern Bokenham's ""Legendys of Hooly Wummen"" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history.