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200 10$aSacred biography $esaints and their biographers in the Middle Ages /$fThomas J. Heffernan
210  1$aNew York ;$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d1988.
215   $a1 online resource (348 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a0-19-507907-8 
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 300-318).
327   $aContents; 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
330   $aModern 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.
606   $aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aChristian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)$xHistory and criticism
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606   $aChristian saints in literature
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