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Osbern Bokenham - Lives of the Saints

English · Hardback

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This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete translation of a collection of Latin saints lives into Middle English.

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  • Introduction

  • Advent

  • Andrew

  • Barbara

  • Lucy

  • Thomas Apostle

  • Nativity of our Lord

  • Anastasia

  • Steven

  • John The Evangelist

  • Innocents

  • Thomas of Canterbury

  • Silvester

  • Circumcision of Our Lord

  • Martina

  • Basil

  • Epiphany

  • Paul Hermit

  • Remigius

  • Hilarius

  • Macarius

  • Felix of Nola

  • Maurus

  • Macrellus

  • Prisca

  • Anthony Abbot

  • Wulfstan

  • Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abacuk

  • Fabian

  • Sebastian

  • Agnes

  • Vincent

  • John Almoner

  • Conversion of Paul

  • Paula

  • Julianus

  • Cyrus and John

  • Septuagesima

  • Sexagesima

  • Quinquagesima

  • Quadragesima

  • Purification of Our Lady

  • Blaise

  • Gilbert

  • Agatha

  • Dorothy

  • William The Hermit

  • Vedastus

  • Amandus

  • Apollonia

  • Scholastica

  • Valentine

  • Juliana

  • Peter's Chair

  • Matthias

  • David

  • Cedde

  • Thomas Aquinas

  • Felix of Dunwich

  • Gregory

  • Longinus

  • Patrick

  • Benedict

  • Annunciation

  • Passion of Our Lord

  • Resurrection



About the author

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.

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This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete translation of a collection of Latin saints lives into Middle English.

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