Studies in Middle English Saints' Legends
- Author / Editor
- Gorlach, Manfred.
Studies in Middle English Saints' Legends
- Published
- Heidelberg : Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1998.
- Physical Description
- [iv], 173 pp.
- Series
- Anglistische Forschungen, no. 257.
- Description
- Bibliographical, linguistic, and aesthetic description of saints' legends in Middle English, with focus on the South England Legendary and the Additional Legends in the Gilte Legend (1438).
- Arranged chronologically, the discussions of the legends and of the contexts in which they appear record the growth and development of the legends and their liturgical and literary uses. Gòˆrlach briefly describes the tradition of SNT, although Chaucer's version is "infinitely better" than other rhymed versions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.