Saint Albon and Saint Amphibalus
New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.
Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #8268
ISBN: 0824094360
Library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "John Lydgate completed St Albon and St Amphibalus in 1439, when he was about sixty-nine. Except for the Life of Our Lady, it is the longest and most ambitious of his saints' legends. It is also his last. This double saints' life, chiefly in rime royal, is in three books. The first treats of the early lives of Albon and the clerk Amphibalus; the second, of Albon's conversion by Amphibalus and his subsequent martyrdom; the last, of the deaths of Amphibalus and his other converts. John Whethamstede, Abbot of St Albans, commissioned the poem." - Introduction. Contents: Preface; Introduction: The Manuscripts; The Legend of Saint Alban; Direct Sources; Versification, Stanzaic Punctuation, and Language; Remarks on the Treatment of the Text; Notes; Bibliography; Saint Albon and Saint Amphibalus : with textual notes: Book I, Book II, Book III; Appendix: The Edition of 1534; Explanatory Notes; Glossary; Index of Proper Names. ; Garland Medieval Texts; Ex-Library; Vol. 11; lix, 324 pages.
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