{"product_id":"legend-of-holy-women-sheila-delany-9780268012953","title":"Legend of Holy Women: Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003eSheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's \u003ci\u003eLegendys of Hooly Wummen\u003c\/i\u003e (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, \u003ci\u003eA Legend of Holy Women\u003c\/i\u003e contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history. As Delany writes in her comprehensive introduction, \"Bokenham gives us not only an all-female hagiography--an authorial decision significant in its own right--but a gallery of powerful, articulate women who are indubitably worthy to do God's work. Some of them are well-educated, some give sound political advice to a monarch, some preach, converting hundreds and thousands to Christianity, some walk on water or perform resurrection. Nor are they pacifists; on the contrary, they call for divinely inflicted vengeance and approve violence in their cause.\" Delany argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eLegend of Good Women\u003c\/i\u003e provided a principle of selection and of arrangement for Bokenham's array of saints. She suggests further that the friar's choice of all-female hagiography, and his poetic representation of holy women, are closely linked to patronage and politics in fifteenth-century England. The translation is accompanied by full notes which, along with the introduction, make the book accessible to a wide audience. It will appeal to all readers interested in the representation of women in late-medieval culture as well as to scholars and students in medieval, renaissance, religious, and women's studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheila Delany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268012954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268012953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 5.56w x 0.77d","brand":"Sheila Delany","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46232962531583,"sku":"9780268012953","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94af1a61-b264-4b84-af2a-977e70ff1edb.jpg?v=1728991662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/legend-of-holy-women-sheila-delany-9780268012953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}