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Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III: Early English Text Society Original Series, cartea 365

Editat de Simon Horobin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 aug 2024
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198934073
ISBN-10: 0198934076
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: 1 b/w photo
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Early English Text Society Original Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013), and has published widely on the history of English and the language of Chaucer.