Clemence of Barking
Item
Author
Clemence of Barking
Location
Barking Abbey, England
Dates
1163-1200
Biography
Clemence was a 12th-century Benedictine nun and Anglo-Norman poet-translator of Barking Abbey.
Works
The Life of St Catherine
Languages
Anglo-Norman
Genres
Devotional, Hagiography
Editions and Translations
The Life of St. Catherine, Ed. William MacBain, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Oxford, Backwell, 1964
Digital Editions
Archival Holdings
Légendes pieuses et Vies de saints, en vers. containing The Life of Saint Catherine translated by Clemence of Barking: NAF 4503, National Library of France, Paris.
