Nova legenda Anglie, Volume 1

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Carl Horstmann, Wynkyn de Worde
Clarendon Press, 1901 - Christian saints - 731 pages
 

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Page iv - The Flowers of the Lives of the most renowned Saints of the three Kingdoms England, Scotland, and Ireland, written and collected out of the best
Page iv - and manuscripts of our nation, and distributed according to their feasts in the Calendar, by the R. Father Hierome Porter, Priest and Monke of the Holy Order of
Page xxiii - The Collection is as complete as possible, and the amount of materials brought together by one man is truly astonishing¿ But it is always the ‘one man
Page iv - The English Martyrologe, conteyning a Summary of the lives of the glorious and renowned Saintes of the three
Page iv - These collections comprised the generally acknowledged Saints of the whole Catholic Church. But in England, where the national idea has always been prominent as against the ‘foreigner,' and was then intensified by the French wars, the idea sprang up of forming a legendary of exclusively English
Page xviii - consyderynge also that the most parte of tho sayntes that be in the sayd legende & in this kalender were eyther borne in this Realme or were abydynge
Page iv - Benedict of the Congregation of England. The first Tome, printed at Doway with licence and approbation of the Ordinary, M. DC. XXXII.
Page xviii - of veray ryght owe to be subiecte & obedyent to this Realme of Englonde as it semyth this lytyll treatyce maye conuenyentlye be callyd the Kalender of the newe Legende of Englonde.
Page iv - This idea arose in John of Tynemouth, and in executing it he created a truly national work, which deserves to rank among the treasures of England.

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