This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Gilte Legende is a translation (1438) of Jean de Vignay's Legende Dorée itself a translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legende Dorée which was one of the most

This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages