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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.
Contents
Introduction
Advent
Andrew
Barbara
Lucy
Thomas Apostle
Nativity of our Lord
Anastasia
Steven
John The Evangelist
Innocents
Thomas of Canterbury
Silvester
Circumcision of Our Lord
Martina
Basil
Epiphany
Paul Hermit
Remigius
Hilarius
Macarius
Felix of Nola
Maurus
Macrellus
Prisca
Anthony Abbot
Wulfstan
Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abacuk
Fabian
Sebastian
Agnes
Vincent
John Almoner
Conversion of Paul
Paula
Julianus
Cyrus and John
Septuagesima
Sexagesima
Quinquagesima
Quadragesima
Purification of Our Lady
Blaise
Gilbert
Agatha
Dorothy
William The Hermit
Vedastus
Amandus
Apollonia
Scholastica
Valentine
Juliana
Peter's Chair
Matthias
David
Cedde
Thomas Aquinas
Felix of Dunwich
Gregory
Longinus
Patrick
Benedict
Annunciation
Passion of Our Lord
Resurrection
