Middle English Legends of Women Saints

Publisher Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Publisher Name: Medieval Institute Publications
Publication Date: 2003

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Acknowledgments
General Introduction
- General Bibliography
- Abbreviations
I. The Legend of St. Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal Abbess
- Introduction and Select Bibliography
- Shorter South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide
- Longer South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide
II. The Legend of Mary Magdalen, Penitent and Apostle
- Introduction and Select Bibliography
- Early South English Legendary Life of Mary Magdalen
- John Mirk, Sermon on St. Mary Magdalen
- Mary Magdalen, from Speculum Sacerdotale
III. Three Popular Legends of Virgin Martyrs
(a) Margaret of Antioch
- Introduction and Select Bibliography
- Stanzaic Life of Margaret
- John Mirk, Sermon on St. Margaret
- John Lydgate, "Lyfe of Seynt Margarete"
(b) Katherine of Alexandria
- Introduction and Select Bibliography
- Stanzaic Life of Katherine
- John Mirk, Sermon on St. Katherine
- St. Katherine, from Speculum Sacerdotale
(c) Christina of Bolsena
- Introduction and Select Bibliography
- William Paris, Life of St. Christina
IV. Legends of St. Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary
- Introduction and Select Bibliography
- John Mirk, Sermon on the Conception of the Virgin Mary
- John Mirk, Sermon on St. Anne
- Osbern Bokenham, Life of St. Anne
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