A Companion to Middle English Hagiography

Author / Editor
Salih, Sarah, ed.

Title
A Companion to Middle English Hagiography

Published
Rochester, N.Y.; and Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2006.

Physical Description
x, 182 pp.

Description
Seven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. The book discusses late medieval English saints from a number of perspectives (readership, shrines and festivals, gender, historiography), with recurrent references to Chaucer, sustained discussion of SNT, references to MLT, and commentary on Chaucer's "manipulation of hagiographical commonplaces" in LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Legend of Good Women.