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Editions

Alonso Fernández de Madrid
Vida de Fray Fernando de Talavera, primer Arzobispo de Granada. P. Félix G. Olmedo, ed. (pb) £8.00

Nortbert
Vita Bennonis II. Episcopi Osnabrugensis Auctore Nortberto Abbate Iburgensi; Henricus Bresslau, ed. (hb) £6.00

Translations

Giovanni Boccaccio
Life of Dante; trans. J. G. Nichols; foreword by A. N. Wilson. (pb) £3.00

Goscelin the Monk
The Life of St. Werburg; tr. N. J. Munday. (pb) £5.00

A. J. Grant, trans.
Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard & The Monk of St. Gall. (hb, The Medieval Library) £6.00

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence/Garnier of Pont-Sainte-Maxence
Garnier’s Becket, from the 12th-century Vie Saint Thomas le Martyr de Cantorbire; Janet Shirley, trans. (hb) £10.00

Iain MacDonald, ed.
Saint Bride. (pb) £4.00

W. M. Metcalfe, trans.
Ancient Lives of Scottish Saints: Part 1, Ninian by Ailred of Rievaux and Two Lives of Columba by Cuimine the Fair and Adamnan; Part 2, Kentigern by Jocelin, Servanus, Margaret of Scotland by Turgot, and Magnus. (pb) £10.00 for 2 vols

Thomas H. Ohlgren, ed.
Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English. (hb) £6.00

Paschasius Radbertus
Charlemagne’s Cousins: Contemporary Lives of Adalard & Wala; Allen Cabaniss, trans. (hb) £15.00

Giorgio Vasari
Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. (hb, Folio Soc.) £6.00
Lives of the Artists: A Selection; tr. George Bull. (hb, Folio Soc.) £35.00 for 3‑vol set

Karen A. Winstead, ed. & trans.
Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends. (hb) £15.00

Secondary sources

L. Th. A. Lorié SJ
Spiritual terminology in the Latin Translations of the Vita Antonii, with reference to fourth and fifth century monastic literature. (pb) £30.00

Books & journals containing related material

Albrecht Classen, ed.
Medieval German Voices for the 21st Century: The Paradigmatic Function of Medieval German Studies for German Studies. (pb) £15.00

E. Catherine Dunn
The Gallican Saint’s Life and the Late Roman Dramatic Tradition. (hb) £6.00

Louise Fradenburg & Carla Freccero, eds.
Premodern Sexualities. (pb) £20.00

Kathryn Gravdal
Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. (hb) £20.00

Paul Murray Kendall
The Art of Biography. (pb) £4.00

R. M. Wilson
The Lost Literature of Medieval England; 2nd edn. (pb) £12.00

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