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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: HEFFERNAN, THOMAS J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: OXFORD : OXFORD University Press, 1992.
Temas:
To 1500
Christian literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > History and criticism.
Christian saints > Legends > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > History > To 1500.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Literary form > History > To 1500.
Christian saints in literature.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic.
Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne > Histoire et critique.
Saints chrétiens > Légendes > Histoire et critique.
Saints chrétiens dans la littérature.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Biography as a literary form
Christian hagiography
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Christian saints in literature
Christian saints > Legends
Christianity and literature
Literary form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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