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Secondhand book for saleKaren A. Winstead, ed. & trans.
Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends.
Published Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 2000.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; published without a dustjacket.
Size: 157×236mm.
Page count: xi,201pp inc. 7 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the boards on this copy are starting to warp a bit, slightly grubby with some minor bumps, some sticker residue on the back; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.
This item £15.00
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Publisher’s price $45.00]
Contains translations of eleven texts, on Saints Juliana, Agatha, Lucy, Justine, Barbara, Anastasia, Cecilia, Christine, Eugenia, Winifred, Margaret, Petronilla, Agnes, Dorothy, Katherine, Ursula, and the Eleven Thousand Virgins; authors include Chaucer, William Paris, John Mirk, Lydgate, Bokenham, as well as several anonymous texts; appendices reproduce two original Middle English texts.
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