Are Mothers Saints? Changes in the Perception of Motherhood in the late Middle Ages (Ph.D. Auburn University, 2000, 324 pp.).

'The primary texts of the discussion are Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, Geoffrey Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen, and The Book of Margery Kempe... In Bokenham's Legendys, the mothers in the saints' lives are emphasized and connected to the writer's female patrons'.