Author: Delany, Sheila
Title: Impolitic Bodies - Poetry, Saints And Society In Fifteenth Century England - The Work Of Osbern Bokenham
Description: Oxford University Press, 1998, 1st edition. Paperback, F. xii+236pp, 6 b/w illustrations, 8 text figs, index, a nice fine copy. New Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 0195109899 ¶ Study of the work of an English Augustinian Friar, an ardent Yorkist and a gifted poet, on the eve of the Wars of the Roses. The book concentrates on one particular poem, written in 1447, 'The Legend of Holy Women' narrating the lives of thirteen legendary female saints. The first such all-female work in English.

Keywords: ISBN 0195109899, history, literature, hagiography, chaucer, legends, religion 0195109899