Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography.

Author / Editor
Winstead, Karen A.

Title
Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography.

Published
Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 227-42.

Description
Traces the writing of saints' legends in poetry in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, highlighting the innovative approaches taken by a number of poets, including Chaucer in SNT.

Alternative Title
Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Second Nun and Her Tale