Women of the Gilte Legende

The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende , the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea , one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by