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Imagining the sacred past hagiography and power in early Normandy /
"Investigating the role of religious traditions in the legitimate of power and the establishment of identity, Samantha Kahn Herrick illuminates the often murky early history of the duchy of Normandy. Central to this religious heritage stood the region's traditional saints, whose deeds, rec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Harvard historical studies ;
v. 156. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Map: Eleventh-Century Normandy xi
- Genealogical Chart: Rulers of Normandy and Their Connections, 911-1087 xii
- 1 Placing the Texts in Time 13
- 2 Individual Appeal: Explaining the Interest in Taurinus, Vigor, and Nicasius 33
- 3 Imagining the Past of the Evrecin: The Vita Taurini 51
- 4 Reshaping History in the Bessin; The Vita Vigoris 74
- 5 Claiming the Heritage of the French Vexin: The Passio Nicasii 94
- 6 Broader Perspective: The Norman Vision of the Distant Past and Contemporary Hagiography 112
- Appendix 1 Manuscripts of the Vita Taurini and Vita Vigoris 139
- Appendix 2 Transmission of the Passio Nicasii 145.