{"product_id":"a-legend-of-holy-women-a-translation-of-osbern-bokenhams-legends-of-holy-women-9780268012946","title":"A Legend of Holy Women: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sheila Delany\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's \u003ci\u003eLegendys of Hooly Wummen\u003c\/i\u003e (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, \u003ci\u003eA Legend of Holy Women\u003c\/i\u003e contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history. As Delany writes in her comprehensive introduction, \"Bokenham gives us not only an all-female hagiography--an authorial decision significant in its own right--but a gallery of powerful, articulate women who are indubitably worthy to do God's work. Some of them are well-educated, some give sound political advice to a monarch, some preach, converting hundreds and thousands to Christianity, some walk on water or perform resurrection. Nor are they pacifists; on the contrary, they call for divinely inflicted vengeance and approve violence in their cause.\" Delany argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eLegend of Good Women\u003c\/i\u003e provided a principle of selection and of arrangement for Bokenham's array of saints. She suggests further that the friar's choice of all-female hagiography, and his poetic representation of holy women, are closely linked to patronage and politics in fifteenth-century England. The translation is accompanied by full notes which, along with the introduction, make the book accessible to a wide audience. It will appeal to all readers interested in the representation of women in late-medieval culture as well as to scholars and students in medieval, renaissance, religious, and women's studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591820492951,"sku":"9780268012946","price":7172.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780268012946.webp?v=1774974682","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-legend-of-holy-women-a-translation-of-osbern-bokenhams-legends-of-holy-women-9780268012946","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}