Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers: “‘Golden Legend’—Wynkyn de Worde, 1493.”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “[38] Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, LXXVI, 'Saint Petronilla, Virgin.'”
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: “When the weather is too wet to hunt, Gregory sits poring over The Golden Legend; he likes the lives of the saints.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “Had he read the Golden Legend, the Turks' Alcoran, or Jews' Talmud, the Rabbins' Comments, what would he have thought?”