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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480058503321

Autore

Palmer James T (James Trevor)

Titolo

Early medieval hagiography / / James T. Palmer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : ARC Humanities Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-64189-911-5

1-64189-089-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Past imperfect

Classificazione

BO 1820

Disciplina

235/.2

Soggetti

Christian hagiography - History - To 1500

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Hagiographers - Europe - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; Chapter 1. Making saints (Up) -- ; Chapter 2. Collecting saints' stories -- ; Chapter 3. Historians and the quest for truth -- ; Chapter 4. Hagiographies and early medieval history.

Sommario/riassunto

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.