The Golden Legend is one of the central texts of the Middle Ages, a superb summary of saints' lives and religious festivals which decisively influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glas
This volume contains an entirely new and accessible translation into modern English of the medieval Latin Gesta Romanorum. Based on the standard Gesta edition by Hermann Österley, it is the first such
The Gesta Romanorum, compiled in the late 13th or early 14th century, is one of the primary sources of western European literature. It is an anonymous collection of tales written in Latin, and drawn f
