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The Golden Legend
Readings on the Saints
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Englisch
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2012
Über dieses Buch
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 guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture.
Arranged according to the order of saints' feast days, these fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the work.
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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.
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"[A]lthough this is a translation with a fine introduction, it also provides the reader with an understanding of the rich diversity of medieval culture. The text itself offers a glimpse of the imagination and dynamic life of Medieval Christian Europe and, therefore, has a real value for students of that era."---Donald J. Dietrich, European Legacy
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"Princeton University Press's volume must rank as one of the most useful reprints of the year for church historians, art historians, and students of medieval and early modern literature."---Dr. Alison Shell, Church Times
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"Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it inside-out. . . . [F]or the rest of us it remains a treasure-house of European culture, crammed full of the things which everyone, once upon a time, used to know."---Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
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"[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
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Introduction to the 2012 Edition
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Acknowledgments
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
22. April 2012
eBook ISBN:
9781400842056
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Course Book
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9781400842056
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Saint Peter; Humility; Man of God; Silvester; Sermon; Martyr; Friar; John Chrysostom; Monastery; Diocletian; Servant of God; Christianity; Saint Stephen; The Monastery; Pope; Clergy; Saint Dominic; Lawrence of Rome; Litany; Mary; mother of Jesus; Damnation; Pity; God; Persecution; Angel of the Lord; Righteousness; Piety; Heresy; Purgatory; Psalms; Massacre of the Innocents; Gregorius; Procession; Concupiscence; Gluttony; Seven Deacons; Basilica; Simon Magus; Judas Maccabeus; False god; Hegesippus (chronicler); Pope Fabian; John of Damascus; Dominican Order; Eternal life (Christianity); Canonization; Herod Antipas; Idolatry; God Alone; Peter of Verona; Pope Gregory IX; Saint Sebastian; Tonsure; Donatism; Ambrose; Canticle; Mortification of the flesh; Supplication; Elijah; Manichaeism; Ephigenia; Consecration; Peter and Paul; Simony; Christian burial; Valentinian (play); Catharism; The Day of the Lord; Viaticum; Spiritual Canticle
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
