Fifteenth-Century Collections of Female Saints' Lives

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
Fifteenth-Century Collections of Female Saints' Lives

Published
YES 33 (2003): 131-41.

Description
Compares the contents of Cambridge University Library MS Additional 4122 with similar contemporary compilations, encouraging further study of such devotional collections. The presence of Chaucer's SNT in such anthologies may indicate his shaping influence on the tradition, later modified by Lydgate, Bokenham, and Capgrave.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.