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The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints
Jacobus de Voragine
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Description for The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints
Paperback. A collection of stories that offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. Translator(s): Ryan, William Granger. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work, which offers an important ... Read more
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work, which offers an important ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1158g
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691154077
SKU
V9780691154077
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About Jacobus de Voragine
William Granger Ryan was a priest in the diocese of Brooklyn and Queens and president of Seton Hill College. Eamon Duffy is professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge University. His books include The Stripping of the Altars and Saints and Sinners.
Reviews for The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints
"[The Golden Legend] came to serve as the literary equivalent of wall-paintings and stained glass... For the translation of the work in its entirety into English we have had to wait 700 years for the energy and learning of a distinguished American academic, William Granger Ryan."
Gerard Irvine, Times Literary Supplement "Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it inside-out... ... Read more
Gerard Irvine, Times Literary Supplement "Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it inside-out... ... Read more