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October 1978

Vol. 9 Three Lives from the Gilte Legende

Purchase this volume Edited by Richard Hamer (1978), Edited from MS B.L. Egerton 876. Richard Hamer (ed.) The Gilte Legende of ca. 1438 is justly considered the most important prose translation of the Legenda Aurea into Middle English, and is often preferred to Caxton’s Golden Legend, on account of its fluent and natural style.  This edition was published in 1978… Read More »Vol. 9 Three Lives from the Gilte Legende