Impolitic Bodies Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: the Work of Osbern Bokenham

Name: Impolitic Bodies Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: the Work of Osbern Bokenham
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ISBN: 9780195109894

ISBN-10: 0195109899

ISBN-13: 9780195109894

Edition: 1998

Authors: Sheila Delany

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This pioneering book explores the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, an ardent Yorkist on the eve of the "Wars of the Roses" and a gifted poet. Sheila Delany focuses on a manuscript written in 1447, the "Legend of Holy Women." Narrating the lives and ordeals of thirteen heroic and powerful saints, this was the first all-female legendary in English, much of it commissioned by wealthy women patrons in the vicinity of Clare Priory, Suffolk, where Bokenham lived. Delany structures her book around the image of the human body. First is the corpus of textual traditions within which Bokenham wrote: above all, the work of his two competing masters, St. Augustine and Geoffrey Chaucer.…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Sheila Delany is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser Unviersity.