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This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea

Presents the lives of 6 medieval women: Joan of Arc, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan, and Margaret Paston.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

While they lived in a world often regarded as oppressive and restricted, the tales of how women fared in the medieval era actually offer a more nuanced take. In