Bokenham, Osbern

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• Osbern Bokenham —     Osbern Bokenham     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Osbern Bokenham     (Bokenam)     English Augustinian friar and poet, b. 1393 (the year in which the most famous of English Augustinians, John Capgrave, was also born); d. probably, in 1447. The… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Bokenam, Osbern — ▪ English author Bokenam also spelled  Bokenham   born Oct. 6, 1393?, Old Buckenham?, Norfolk, Eng. died c. 1447       English poet and friar best known as the author of a verse collection entitled Legends of Holy Women.       Little is known of… …   Universalium

• Geoffroy Hardeby — ou Gaufridus Hardeby ( c. 1320 c. 1385), était l’un des notables théologiens anglais du XIVe siècle qui rejoignit l Ordre de Saint Augustin, fondé cent ans plus tôt, en 1256, sous le règne du pape Alexandre IV. Geoffrey Hardeby est en quelque… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Women's writing in English — Women s writing as a discrete area of literary studies is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their gender, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study. Their texts emerge …   Wikipedia