Manuscripts
ACompilation and audience
Manfred Görlach concluded that the first collection of versified saints' lives identifiable as a legendary written in southern Middle English was created c. 1270-85. This has largely been supported by subsequent scholarship. Dialectal evidence suggests that most of the texts were composed in the South-West or West Midlands of England.Anne B. Thompson, ''Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), p. 193.Editions
*Acker, Paul, "Saint Mildred in the ''South English Legendary''", in ''The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment'', ed. Klaus Jankofsky (Tübingen: Francke, 1992), 140-153. *Braswell, Laurel, "Saint Edburga of Winchester: A Study of her Cult, a.d. 950-1500, with an edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English and Latin lives", ''Mediaeval Studies'' 33 (1971), 292-333. *D'Evelyn and Mill, ''The South English Legendary, edited from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 145 and British Museum MS. Harley 2277'' (1956), review: Dorothy Bethurum, Speculum (1959). *Horstmann, Carl, "''The Early South English Legendary or Lives of Saints'' London: 1887. Early English Text Society 87. *Major, Tristan, "Saint Etheldreda in the ''South English Legendary''," ''Anglia'' 128.1 (2010), 83-101. *Nagy, Michael, "Saint Æþelberht of East Anglia in the ''South English Legendary''", ''The Chaucer Review'' 37 (2002), 159-72. *Yeager, Stephen, "The ''South English Legendary'' "Life of St. Edwine": An Edition," ''Traditio'' 66 (2011), 170-87.Scholarship
* Blurton, Heather and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed., ''Rethinking the 'South English Legendaries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012). *Görlach, Manfred. ''The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary'', Leeds Texts and Monographs, n. s. 6 (Leeds: University of Leeds, 1974). *Jankofsky, Klaus P, ed. ''The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment'' (Tübingen: Francke, 1992). *Pearsall, Derek, ed. ''Studies in The Vernon Manuscript'' (Cambridge: DS Brewer, 1990). *Samson, Annie. 'The South English Legendary: Constructing a Context', in ''Thirteenth Century England I'', ed. by P. R. Coss and S. D. Lloyd (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1985). *Thompson, Anne. ''Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary.'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).References
{{Reflist Middle English literature Christian hagiography Harleian Collection