Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III
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This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham. Bokenham's version of the Legenda aurea was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, and is also important for his naming of the patrons for whom he translated a number of these saints' lives.

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This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham. Bokenham's version of the Legenda aurea was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, and is also important for his naming of the patrons for whom he translated a number of these saints' lives.
Autorenporträt
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013), and has published widely on the history of English and the language of Chaucer.