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Vitae and Biography

Updated August 19th, 2007

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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) £9.50

[Gilte Legende]:
Richard Hamer, ed. Three Lives from the Gilte Legende, ed. from MS B.L. Egerton 876. (pb)
£7.00

Goscelin of Canterbury
Vita Deo delictae virginis Mildrethae

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence/Garnier of Pont-Sainte-Maxence
La vie de Saint Thomas Becket. Emmanuel Walberg, ed. (CFMA; pb) £12.00

Hildeberti Cenomanensis Episcopi 
Vita beate Marie Egiptiace. (hb) £70.00




Translations

Einhard
Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard & The Monk of St Gall. A. J. Grant, trans. (hb, The Medieval Library) £5.00
The Life of Charlemagne. Lewis Thorpe, trans. (hb, Folio Society) £4.00

Goscelin the Monk
The Life of St. Werburg. N. J. Munday, trans. (pb) £7.50

A. J. Grant, trans.
Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard & The Monk of St Gall.
(hb, The Medieval Library) £5.00 

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence/Garnier of Pont-Sainte-Maxence
Garnier's Becket, translated from the 12th-century Vie Saint Thomas le Martyr de Cantorbire. Janet Shirley, trans. (hb) £10.00
Garnier's Becket, translated from the 12th-century Vie Saint Thomas le Martyr de Cantorbire. Janet Shirley, trans. (pb) £8.00

Life of Ceolfrid. Douglas Samuel Boutflower, trans. (hb) £8.00

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)
£11.00 for 2 vols

Thomas H. Ohlgren, ed.
Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English. (hb)
£10.00 

[No author]. Two Celtic Saints: The Life of St. Ninian by Ailred and The Life of St. Kentigern by Joceline (facsimile reprint from the "Historians of Scotland" series; pb). £4.00

Karen A. Winstead, ed. & trans.
Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends. (hb)
£16.00


Secondary works






Books & journals containing relevant essays


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


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