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



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Autore: Heffernan Thomas J. <1944-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sacred biography : Saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages / / Thomas J. Heffernan Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.