Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

136. Saintly Women and Priestly Poets: The Fifteenth-Century English Poetry of Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, and John Audelay

8:45–10:00 p.m., Skyway Suite 272, Hyatt Regency

A special session

Presiding: Matthew C. Giancarlo, Univ. of Kentucky

1. “The Verse Lives of Bokenham’s Golden Legend: Rewriting Holiness in Fifteenth-Century England,” Karen A. Winstead, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

2. “Eat This Book: Literary Consumption in Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine,” Shannon Gayk, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

3. “John the Blind Audelay: Politics and Trauma in Bodleian Library MS Douce 302,” Robert J. Meyer Lee, Goshen Coll.

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