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The Distaff GospelsMadeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay (eds.)

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The Distaff Gospels

A First Modern English Edition of Les Évangiles des Quenouilles

by Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay (eds.)

A modern English edition and translation of a fifteenth-century French text in which women gathered to spin recite hundreds of folk beliefs as mock gospels. The introduction discusses the work's satirical frame, its manuscripts and early printings, and its value as evidence for late medieval popular lore.

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