02557nam 22005652 450 991082384920332120210128141959.01-64189-090-81-64189-911-51-64189-089-410.1515/9781641890892(CKB)4100000007267915(OCoLC)1078756163(MdBmJHUP)muse72002(MiAaPQ)EBC5841203(DE-B1597)541569(DE-B1597)9781641890892(UkCbUP)CR9781641890892(EXLCZ)99410000000726791520201011d2018|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEarly medieval hagiography /James T. Palmer[electronic resource]Leeds :ARC Humanities Press,2018.1 online resource (122 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Past imperfectTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).1-64189-088-6 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)Christian hagiographyHistoryTo 1500Civilization, Medieval, in literatureHagiographersEuropeHistoryTo 1500Christian hagiographyHistoryCivilization, Medieval, in literature.HagiographersHistory235/.2BO 1820rvkPalmer James T(James Trevor),66662UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910823849203321Early medieval hagiography3968261UNINA