Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham

Examines the first collection of all female saints' lives in any language: Legends of Holy Women composed by the English Augustianian friar Osbern Bokenham between 1443 and 1447., and sets it in the context of succession crises, war and the connection of women to political power during the 14th and 15th centuries.