Sacred biography : Saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages / / Thomas J. Heffernan

• Autore: Heffernan Thomas J. <1944->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Edizione: New ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 820/.9/382
• Soggetto topico: Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism; Christian saints - Legends - History and criticism; Christianity and literature - History - To 1500; Christian hagiography - History - To 1500; Literary form - History - To 1500; Christian saints in literature; Biography as a literary form
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p300-318. - Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Modern 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sacred biography
• ISBN: 0-19-774099-5; 0-19-536001-X; 0-19-802195-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821562603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.