Karen A. Winstead

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Associate Professor Karen Winstead of The Ohio State University has achieved rare prominence as both author of interpretative monographs and editor of Middle English texts. Her most recent book, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007), is the definitive full-length study of Capgrave's poetry, which she investigates in depth against its tumultuous political and religious contexts. Her earlier book, Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England (Cornell UP, 1997), which is still in print, is a remarkable survey of earlier female saints' lives that has become a touchstone in the field of hagiography. The editions of Middle English texts that she has produced are companions to these monographs: John Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine (TEAMS, 1999), and the anthology Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends (Cornell U P, 2000). She is also the author of over a dozen published essays, all on related topics.

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