Contents

pp vi-vii

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

pp viii-viii

INTRODUCTION

pp 1-58

TEXTS

pp 59-60

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY LATIN VERSION OF THE LEGEND: Incipit prologus in uitam inclite uirginis sororis Agnetis

pp 61-62

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN VERSION OF THE LEGEND: Hie vahet an daz leben vnd lesen der kunigen Angnes

pp 63-150

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN VERSION OF SAINT CLARE'S LETTERS TO BLESSED AGNES AND OF THE BENEDICTION OF SAINT CLARE: Dise brief sant die selig Sand Clar

pp 151-166

APPENDIX I - Bibliography

pp 167-168

APPENDIX II - Notes

pp 169-174

APPENDIX III - Letter of Wenceslas IV. to Pope Gregory IX

pp 175-175

APPENDIX IV - Supplementary Note

pp 176-176

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