English Readers of Catholic Saints

" In 1484 William Caxton 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.

Judy Ann Ford is Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Commerce, US. Her research interests include Medieval Europe, European Reformations, Popular Religion, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

1. William Caxton and Devotional Literature; 2. Caxton's Golden Legend: The First Edition; 3. Caxton's Sources: The Legenda aurea, La Légende dorée, and the Gilte Legende; 4. The Bible as Hagiography in Caxton's Golden Legend; 5. England and the British Isles in Caxton's Golden Legend; 6. The Late Fifteenth-Century Editions; 7. Sixteenth-Century Editions; 8. The Afterlife of The Golden Legend