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The Golden Legend : Readings on the Saints /
"Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purp...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Latín |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2012 edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work, which offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. Arranged according to the order of saints' feast days, these fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the work."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Notas: | "Here endeth the Golden Legend or Lombardic History of Jacobus de Voragine of the Order of Preachers, bishop of Genoa"--Page 781. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (824 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400842056 |