John Capgrave

John Capgrave (21 April 1393 – 12 August 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.

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