Sacred Biography Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages

Name: Sacred Biography Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780195079074

ISBN-10: 0195079078

ISBN-13: 9780195079074

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Thomas J. Heffernan

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Medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, yet are routinely patronized as "pious fiction". Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither simply credulous or blinded by piety. Concentrating on Latin and English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective, arguing that such biographical writing presupposes an entirely different viewof the world and the self, and presents new ideas of sin and guilt, of what was real and what imaginary, and for what one should live and die. Offering a new perspective on Christian literary expression, this book…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




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A Theology of Behavior: Communio Sanctorum and the Use of Sources



The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas and the Imitatio Christi



Virgin Mothers


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