Golden Legend Readings on the Saints

Name: Golden Legend Readings on the Saints
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ISBN: 9780691154077

ISBN-10: 0691154074

ISBN-13: 9780691154077

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jacobus de Voragine, William Granger Ryan, Eamon Duffy, de Voragine Jacobus

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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories,The Golden Legendwas 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 816
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 2.662