Talk:Golden Legend

Ye olde sections

Should this article use the word mediæval or medieval since the rest of the Wikipedia seems to use the latter?

Medieval is an American spelling; mediaeval or mediæval the British spelling. Wikipedia:Manual of Style recommends the use of American spellings with American subjects, and British spellings on British subjects. Since American spellings weren't around when the Golden Legend was wrote, I used the British spelling. -- IHCOYC 11:16 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Fair enough. However I just checked Wikipedia:Special_characters and it discourages entering special characters using an "HTML named character entity reference" (apparently makes searching more difficult, unless that bug has been fixed), so I will just enter the æ in the article directly.

The use of æ is very unusual. Nowadays, æ is usually written as ae. SpNeo 06:52, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

FWIW, I suspect that policy is relict, or at least no longer represents majority practice. Consider the wars over Gdansk; there seems to be a will there to refer to that city only by a name that uses a character that can only be entered as a numerical reference. Æ is fairly straightforward by comparison. I prefer it, though only for æsthetic reasons. -- Smerdis of Tlön 11:38, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

The use of the spelling 'medieval' is now near-universal in UK academic and scholarly practice, and has been for some time, witness The Cambridge Medieval History (first vol. 1957), Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library (first vol. 1959), or William Stubbs' 17 lectures on the study of medieval and modern history (Oxford, 1906). Fergus Wilde (talk) 09:21, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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If this book, the Golden Legend, was compiled around 1260, why is it listed at the category "1463 books"? - Kind regards, Cachtorr

The Golden Legend was first printed in that year by William Caxton, as mentioned in the article. Rockfall 17:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

• A similar category for the English Wikipedia would be useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.159.77.199 (talk) 03:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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In the quote from Caxton in the "fanciful etymologies" section, there is a probable typo, i.e. "he was cold and *refrigate* from all concupiscence of the flesh". I have not corrected it since I do not have access to the source being quoted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.6.97.117 (talk) 16:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

The Ellis edition of Caxton's printing of the Golden Legend, from which this quote comes (online version available as of 27 June 2014 at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume2.asp#Silvester ) partially modernises Caxton's spelling, but keeps a great many usages that are now archaic, and many which are in this text rather uncritical read-overs by Caxton or his editors from the Latin. The quote is correct, but 'refrigerate' as an adjective like this is otiose and doesn't really do anything more than repeat the idea of 'cold towards desire for the flesh', i.e. 'not interested in sex', or 'chaste' as the positive intent of the author would have it. Fergus Wilde (talk) 08:59, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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"Righteous"

Am I missing something or is the adjective "righteous" in the sentence "The chapter conveys the righteous medieval Christian understanding of the beliefs of Saracens and other Muslims." anything other than a completely unnecessary bit of POV? Because a whole slew of IPs seem determined to have it stay there. Lithoderm 22:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

No. "Self-righteous" might be more appropriate. Johnbod (talk) 23:13, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Hmm. The fun continues - time to semi-protect? Johnbod (talk) 18:55, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

May 2020

"editions appeared quickly, not only in Latin, but also in every major European language" Translated to Swedish in 2007 (wikipedia sv) major language? donu ? but not quickly ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.82.49.240 (talk) 18:02, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Good point, I rephrased it to be "almost every major European language" --Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 23:49, 6 May 2020 (UTC)