Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-755) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Saint Augustine of Canterbury -- Saint Chad -- Saint Euphrosyne -- Saint Eustace and his companions -- Saint Giles -- Saint Guthlac -- Saint James the Greater -- Saint Machutus -- Saint Margaret: Corpus Christi College Cambridge version -- Saint Margaret: Cotton Otho version -- Saint Margaret: Cotton Tiberius version -- Saint Mary of Egypt -- Saint Michael -- Saint Mildred: Cotton Caligula version -- Saint Mildred: Lambeth version -- Saint Neot -- Saint Nicholas -- Saint Pantaleon -- Saint Paulinus -- Saint Quentin -- Saint Seaxburh -- The Seven Sleepers.
Summary:
"In early medieval England, saints' Lives were eagerly received and translated into the vernacular. The stories collected here by unknown authors are preserved in manuscripts dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. They include locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well as universally familiar ones like Nicholas and Michael the Archangel, and are set everywhere from Antioch to Rome, from India to Ephesus. These Lives also explore such topics as the obligations of rulers, marriage and gender roles, private and public devotion, the environment, education, and the sweep of human history. This volume presents new Old English editions and modern English translations of twenty-two unattributed saints' Lives."--Jacket flap.
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