Osbern Bokenham

Lives of the Saints Vol II
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-287189-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

This is the second 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horobin, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Secundus

- Mary Egyptian

- Ambrose

- George

- Mark

- Marcellinus Pope

- Vitalis

- Peter of Milan

- Philip

- James the Less

- Invention of the Cross

- John before the Latin gate

- Monica

- John of Beverley

- Litanies

- Ascension of our Lord

- Pentecost

- Gordianus and Epimachus

- Nereus and Achilleus

- Pancras

- Boniface

- Dunstan

- Urban

- Aldhelm

- Eleutherius

- Augustine of England

- John Pope and Martyr

- Petronilla

- Peter Exorcist and Martyr

- Erasmus

- Primus and Felicianus

- Barnabas

- Anthony of Padua

- Vitus and Modestus

- Botolph

- Marina

- Gervase and Prothase

- Silverius Pope

- Alban

- Paulinus

- Audrey

- John the Baptist

- John and Paul

- Leo Pope

- Peter Apostle

- Commemoration of Paul

- Processus and Martinian

- Translation of Thomas of Canterbury

- Theodora

- Margaret

- Alexis

- Mary Magdalen

- Apollinaris

- Christina

- Nazarius

- Felix Pope

- Simplicius and Faustinus

- Martha

- Abdon and Sennen

- Germanus

- Eusebius

- Machabees

- Peter in Chains

- Stephen Pope

- Finding of Stephen

- Dominic

- Sixtus

- Donatus

- Cyriacus

- Romanus

- Laurence

- Hippolytus

- Simplicianus

- Clare

- Tiburtius prefect of Rome

- Assumption of our Lady

- Bernard

- Bartholemew

- Augustine

Über Autor(innen)

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 books on the history of English, and the language of Chaucer.