Early medieval hagiography / / James T. Palmer [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Palmer James T (James Trevor)
• Pubblicazione: Leeds : , : ARC Humanities Press, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (122 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 235/.2
• Soggetto topico: Christian hagiography - History - To 1500; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Hagiographers - Europe - History - To 1500
• Classificazione: BO 1820
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Early medieval hagiography
• ISBN: 1-64189-090-8; 1-64189-911-5; 1-64189-089-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823849203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)