Cargando…

Early Medieval Hagiography /

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of med...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Palmer, James T. (James Trevor) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_62500
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905050430.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 181210s2018 enk o 00 0 eng d
020 |a 9781641890892 
020 |z 9781641890908 
020 |z 9781641890885 
035 |a (OCoLC)1078756163 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
043 |a e------ 
050 4 |a BX4662  |b .P354 2018 
100 1 |a Palmer, James T.  |q (James Trevor),  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Early Medieval Hagiography /   |c James T. Palmer. 
264 1 |a Baltimore, Maryland :  |b Project Muse,  |c 2018 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2018 
264 4 |c ©2018 
300 |a 1 online resource (134 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Past imperfect 
500 |a Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Making saints (up) -- Collecting saints' stories -- Historians and the quest for truth -- Hagiographies and early medieval history. 
506 |a Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. 
520 |a Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of different modern methodologies used to interrogate hagiographies, from early twentieth-century source criticism, to the insights gained from gender studies, postmodernism and digital humanities. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 0 |a Civilization, Medieval, in literature. 
650 0 |a Hagiographers  |z Europe  |x History  |y To 1500. 
650 0 |a Christian hagiography  |x History  |y To 1500. 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse,  |e distributor. 
776 1 8 |i Print version:  |z 9781641890885 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press) 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/62500/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2018 Complete 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2018 Philosophy and Religion