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Golden Legend, The - Volume 2
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Product Description
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, this work offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. It includes chapters devoted to Christ and to the Blessed Virgin which serve as examples of the mingling of doctrine.
It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and eventual 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 his new translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. These stories have the effect of bringing the saints to life as real people, in the context of late thirteenth-century living, but in them the saints do things that ordinary people can only wonder at. Product Details
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Format:
Paperback
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Number of pages:
406
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Publisher:
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
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Language:
English
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ISBN:
0691001545
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Country of Origin:
United States
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Binding:
Glue
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Full Title:
Golden Legend, The - Readings on the Saints - Volume 2
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This Edition Published:
Wednesday 30 November, 1994
- Weight: 0.580 kg
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Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!], Thursday 08 September, 2005
Reviewer: Michael Villegas from Los Angeles, California, United States
The Golden Legend by Blessed Jacobus de Voragine wrote about saints that I heard and never heard while I was growing up with my Catholic Faith. It was interesting to learn saints with names that I never knew of: St. Quentin, St. Mary of Egypt, and St. Praxedes.
The Golden Legend was more than a legend. It was one of the most popular books to be read after the Holy Bible during the Medieval and Renaissance Era.
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