John Capgrave
John Capgrave (1393 - 1464) was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian, remembered chiefly for Nova Legenda Angliae (New Reading from England). This was the first comprehensive collection of lives of the English saints.
John Capgrave (1393 - 1464) was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian, remembered chiefly for Nova Legenda Angliae (New Reading from England). This was the first comprehensive collection of lives of the English saints. See less
