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200 10$aSacred biography $eSaints and their biographers in the Middle Ages /$fThomas J. Heffernan
205   $aNew ed.
210  1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023
215   $a1 online resource (348 p.)
225 1 $aOxford scholarship online
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 1992.
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320   $aBibliography: p300-318. - Includes index.
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 8 $aModern historiography dismisses the medieval lives of saints about whom little was really known as "pious fiction". This study demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous nor blinded by piety.
410  0$aOxford scholarship online.
606   $aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aChristian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aChristian saints$xLegends$xHistory and criticism
606   $aChristianity and literature$xHistory$yTo 1500
606   $aChristian hagiography$xHistory$yTo 1500
606   $aLiterary form$xHistory$yTo 1500
606   $aChristian saints in literature
606   $aBiography as a literary form
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700   $aHeffernan$b Thomas J.$f1944-$0167706
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