Nicholas Love’s Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ was a hugely popular text in later medieval England. It is a translation of an earlier Latin series of meditations on Christ’s life; Love’s source was of Franciscan origin. Receiving official approval from Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Myrrour played a salient role in the upholding of traditional religion in the fractious spiritual climate of fifteenth-century England.