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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Arc Humanities Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781641890892 1641890894 9781641890908 1641890908 1641890886 9781641890885 |