English Readers of Catholic Saints: The Printing History of William Caxton's Golden Legend

ISBN-13: 9781032236124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Judy Ann Ford

Opis

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In 1484 William Caxton issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the moulding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market.

Spis treści

1. William Caxton and Devotional Literature;  2. Caxton’s Golden Legend: The First Edition;  3. Caxton’s Sources: The Legenda aurea, La Légende dorée, and the Gilte Legende; 4. The Bible as Hagiography in Caxton’s Golden Legend;  5. England and the British Isles in Caxton’s Golden Legend;  6. The Late Fifteenth-Century Editions;  7. Sixteenth-Century Editions;  8. The Afterlife of The Golden Legend

O autorze

Judy Ann Ford is Professor of History at Texas A&M University–Commerce, US. Her research interests include Medieval Europe, European Reformations, Popular Religion, and J. R. R. Tolkien.