Talk:Golden Legend

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Should this article use the word mediæval or medieval since the rest of the Wikipedia seems to use the latter?

Medieval is an American spelling; mediaeval or mediæval the British spelling. Wikipedia:Manual of Style recommends the use of American spellings with American subjects, and British spellings on British subjects. Since American spellings weren't around when the Golden Legend was wrote, I used the British spelling. -- IHCOYC 11:16 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Fair enough. However I just checked Wikipedia:Special_characters and it discourages entering special characters using an "HTML named character entity reference" (apparently makes searching more difficult, unless that bug has been fixed), so I will just enter the æ in the article directly.

The use of æ is very unusual. Nowadays, æ is usually written as ae. SpNeo 06:52, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

FWIW, I suspect that policy is relict, or at least no longer represents majority practice. Consider the wars over Gdansk; there seems to be a will there to refer to that city only by a name that uses a character that can only be entered as a numerical reference. Æ is fairly straightforward by comparison. I prefer it, though only for æsthetic reasons. -- Smerdis of Tlön 11:38, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

If this book, the Golden Legend, was compiled around 1260, why is it listed at the category "1463 books"? - Kind regards, Cachtorr

The Golden Legend was first printed in that year by William Caxton, as mentioned in the article. Rockfall 17:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)