The golden legend : readings on the saints / by Jacobus de Voragine : Transalated by William Ganger Ryan ; Introduction by Eamon Duffy
Language: English Publisher: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: xxi, 783 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780691154077 (pbk)
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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.
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