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Osbern Bokenam was born, according to his own account, on 6 October 1393. His name suggests he may have been a native of Bokeham, now Bookham, in
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Macpherson, Ewan. "Osbern Bokenham." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. Retrieved 28 March 2013
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monk. Others are dedicated to pious ladies who desired the history of the patron saints after whom they had been named.
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speech. He explains his lack of decoration on the plea that the finest flowers had been already plucked by Chaucer,
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Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham
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Bokenam wrote a series of 13 legends of holy maidens and women, chiefly in seven and eight-lined
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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on at least two occasions, possibly living for a time in Venice and Rome. In 1445 he was a
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Index

Osbern Bokenham
Augustinian
Geoffrey Chaucer
Surrey
Norfolk
Stoke Clare
Clare Priory
Italy
pilgrim
Santiago de Compostela
stanzas
prologues
Chaucer
Lydgate
Jacobus de Voragine
Archbishop of Genoa
Cambridge
British Museum
convent
Roxburghe Club
Eugen Kölbing
William Dugdale
Suffolk
Gower
Abbotsford House
Sir Walter Scott
Macpherson, Ewan. "Osbern Bokenham." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. Retrieved 28 March 2013


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