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Osbern Bokenam

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Bokenam also spelled:
Bokenham
Born:
Oct. 6, 1393?, Old Buckenham?, Norfolk, Eng.
Died:
c. 1447
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Osbern Bokenam (born Oct. 6, 1393?, Old Buckenham?, Norfolk, Eng.—died c. 1447) was an English poet and friar best known as the author of a verse collection entitled Legends of Holy Women. Little is known of Bokenam’s life. He traveled often to Italy, living for several years in Venice and later making pilgrimages to Rome and other cities. He made his home, however, in an Augustinian convent in Suffolk. At least two works in addition to the legends have been attributed to Bokenam. The work on which his reputation stands is an approximately 10,000-line poem written in the Middle English ...(100 of 244 words)

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