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Autore |
Heffernan Thomas J. <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Sacred biography : Saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages / / Thomas J. Heffernan |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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9780197740996 |
0197740995 |
9780195360011 |
019536001X |
9780198021957 |
019802195X |
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Edizione |
[New ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism |
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism |
Christian saints - Legends - History and criticism |
Christianity and literature - History - To 1500 |
Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 |
Literary form - History - To 1500 |
Christian saints in literature |
Biography as a literary form |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1992. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p300-318. - Includes index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1 From Logos to Canon: The Making of a Saint's Life; 2 Sacred Biography as Historical Narrative: Testing the Tradition, Gibbon to Gadamer; 3 Sanctity in the Cloister: Walter Daniel's Vita Sancti Aelredi and Rhetoric; 4 A Theology of Behavior: Communio Sanctorum and the Use of Sources; 5 The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas and the Imitatio Christi; 6 Virgin Mothers; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Modern historiography dismisses the medieval lives of saints about whom little was really known as "pious fiction". This study demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to |
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