Gilte Legende: volume I: 327 (Early English Text Society Original Series) - Hardcover

Russell, Vida

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199205779 ISBN 13: 9780199205776

Publisher: Early English Text Society, 2006

Synopsis

The Gilte Legende is, for the most part, a close translation "drawn out of Frensshe into Englisshe" in 1438, of Jean de Vignay's Légende dorée of about 1333-40, itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, completed c.1267. The importance of the Legenda aurea as one of the most widely copied and read books of the later middle ages can hardly be over-estimated. This is the first of a projected set of three volumes; volumes I and II will contain the text, and volume III the general introduction, notes and commentary. Richard Hamer is an Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and former Tutor in English Literature. Vida Russell was formerly a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Adelaide.

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About the Author

Richard Hamer has previously edited, with Vida Russell, Supplementary Lives in some Manuscripts of the Gilte Legende, EETS O.S. 315 (2000). The three volumes of Gilte Legende are the centrepiece of this project begun with O.S. 315. He has written the intoduction and notes to The Golden Legend: Selections, Penguin Books (London, 1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: Early English Text Society
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199205779
• ISBN 13: 9780199205776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Hamer Richard