03763nam 22009012n 450 991082156260332120230331005431.00-19-774099-50-19-536001-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(OCoLC)1406780878(StDuBDS)9780197740996(EXLCZ)99100000000039604019920929e20231988 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrSacred biography Saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages /Thomas J. HeffernanNew ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,20231 online resource (348 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 1992.0-19-507907-8 0-19-505225-0 Bibliography: p300-318. - Includes index.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.Oxford scholarship online.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.1944-167706WhitakerUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910821562603321Sacred biography481543UNINA