03566nam 2200829 450 991078462100332120230331005431.00-19-774099-50-19-536001-X0-19-802195-X2027/heb01200(CKB)1000000000396040(EBL)272640(OCoLC)476011816(SSID)ssj0000650957(PQKBManifestationID)12283892(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000650957(PQKBWorkID)10615647(PQKB)10405872(SSID)ssj0000084827(PQKBManifestationID)11112619(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084827(PQKBWorkID)10012036(PQKB)11773190(Au-PeEL)EBL5119777(OCoLC)959950201(Au-PeEL)EBL4702537(CaPaEBR)ebr11273619(dli)HEB01200(MiU)MIU01000000000000003602880(MiAaPQ)EBC5119777(EXLCZ)99100000000039604020180802d1988 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSacred biography saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages /Thomas J. HeffernanNew York ;Oxford :Oxford University Press,1988.1 online resource (348 p.)Includes index.0-19-507907-8 0-19-505225-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-318).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; ZModern 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 misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous nor blinded by piety.Christian literature, English (Middle)History and criticismChristian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)History and criticismChristian saintsLegendsHistory and criticismChristianity and literatureHistoryTo 1500Christian hagiographyHistoryTo 1500Literary formHistoryTo 1500Christian saints in literatureBiography as a literary formChristian literature, English (Middle)History and criticism.Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)History and criticism.Christian saintsLegendsHistory and criticism.Christianity and literatureHistoryChristian hagiographyHistoryLiterary formHistoryChristian saints in literature.Biography as a literary form.820/.9/382Heffernan Thomas J.1944-167706MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784621003321Sacred biography481543UNINA