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SACRED BIOGRAPHY : saints and their biographers in the middle ages.
Though medieval saints' lives are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as pious fiction by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medievalauthors, who w...
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OXFORD :
OXFORD University Press,
1992.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Contents; 1 From Logos to Canon: The Making of a Saint's Life; 2 Sacred Biography as Historical Narrative: Testing the Tradition, Gibbon to Gadamer; 3 Sanctity in the Cloister: Walter Daniel's Vita Sancti Aelredi and Rhetoric; 4 A Theology of Behavior: Communio Sanctorum and the Use of Sources; 5 The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas and the Imitatio Christi; 6 Virgin Mothers; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. | |
| 520 | |a Though medieval saints' lives are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as pious fiction by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medievalauthors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; anddemonstrates the syncret. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Christianity and literature |x History |y To 1500. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Christian hagiography |x History |y To 1500. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Literary form |x History |y To 1500. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Christian saints in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Biography as a literary form. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Biography. | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Saints chrétiens |v Légendes |x Histoire et critique. | |
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