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Gilte Legende Vol II (Early English Text Society Original Series) - Hardcover

Hamer, Richard

 
9780199234394: Gilte Legende Vol II (Early English Text Society Original Series)

Synopsis

The second of a projected set of three volumes, Volume II concludes the text; Volume III will contain the general introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary.

Gilte Legende is, for the most part, a close translation (1438) of Jean de Vignay's Legende Dorée (ca. 1333-40), itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's immensely influential Legenda Aurea (ca. 1267). The importance of Legenda Aurea as a source book for students of late medieval literature, church history, and visual art, can hardly be overestimated.

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About the Author

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

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