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This third volume completes the text of this 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
Beheading of John the Baptist
Savinianus
Lupus
Mamertinus
Giles
Nativity of our Lady
Adrian
Gorgonius
Nicholas of Tolentino
Protus and Hyacinthus
Exaltation of the Cross
Cornelius Pope
Euphemia
Lambert
Matthew
Maurice
Justina
Cosmas and Damian
Michael
Jerome
Remigius
Leodegar
Francis
Faith
Pelagia
Thais
Dionysius
Cerbonius of Populonia
Wilfred
Callixtus Pope
Luke
11000 Virgins
Simon and Jude
All Saints
All Souls
Winifred
