Caxton''s Golden Legend

This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton.

List of contents

• INTRODUCTION


• I: Caxton's Golden Legend and its Sources


• II: Language


• III: Printings of the Golden Legend


• IV: Edition Description


• V: Copy Descriptions


• VI: Editorial Procedures


• Select Bibliography


• CAXTON'S GOLDEN LEGEND


• 1: Advent


• 2: Nativity


• 3: Circumcision


• 4: Epiphany


• 5: Septuagesima


• 6: Sexagesima


• 7: Quinquagesima


• 8: Quadragesima


• 9: Ember Days


• 10: Passion


• 11: Resurrection


• 12: Litanies


• 13: Ascension


• 14: Pentecost


• 15: Corpus Christi


• 16: Dedication of the Church


• Appendix


• Notes on the Text


• Glossary

About the author

Mayumi Taguchi is a Professor at Osaka Sangyo University; she has been involved with several editorial projects on late medieval devotional texts.

John Scahill was formerly a Professor of English at Keio University, Tokyo.

Satoko Tokunaga is Associate Professor of English at Keio University and the Hon. Secretary for Japan of the Bibliographical Society.

Summary

This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton.

Additional text

This edition of Caxton's Golden Legend promises to shed more light on the exact sources he used and the ways he adapted them.

Product details

• Authors: Mayumi (Professor Taguchi
• Assisted by: John Scahill (Editor), John (English Language Teacher Scahill (Editor), Scahill John (Editor), Mayumi Taguchi (Editor), Mayumi (Professor Taguchi (Editor), Satoko Tokunaga (Editor), Satoko (Associate Professor Tokunaga (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2020
• EAN: 9780198867968
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886796-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Early English Text Society Original Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299