TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ford,Judy Ann
TI  - English readers of Catholic saints: the printing history of William Caxton's Golden legend 
T2  - Studies in medieval history and culture
SN  - 9780429296895
AV  - BX4654.J4 
U1  - 270.092/2 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Jacobus,
KW  - Caxton, William,
KW  - Printing
KW  - History
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Legends
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christian hagiography
KW  - To 1500
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / History
N1  - William Caxton and Devotional Literature -- Caxton's Golden Legend: The First Edition -- Caxton's Sources: The Legenda aurea, La Légende dorée, and the Gilte Legende -- The Bible as Hagiography in Caxton's Golden Legend -- England and the British Isles in Caxton's Golden Legend -- The Late Fifteenth-Century Editions -- Sixteenth-Century Editions -- The Afterlife of The Golden Legend
N2  - "In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints' lives in Europe. This study analyzes the moulding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications included not only illustrations and changes in the arrangement of chapters, but also the addition of lives of British saints and translated excerpts from the Bible, showing an appetite for vernacular scripture and stories about England's past. The publication history of Caxton's Golden Legend reveals attitudes towards national identity and piety within the context of English print culture during the half century prior to the Henrician Reformation"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429296895
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -