The golden legend : readings on the saints / Jacobus De Voragine; translated by William Granger Ryan ; with an introduction by Eamon Duffy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Contributor:

Ryan, William Granger, 1905-1996.

Duffy, Eamon.

Standardized Title:

Legenda aurea. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian saints--Biography.

Christian saints.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (812 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the 2012 Edition / Duffy, Eamon

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1-24

25-54

55-89

90-119

120-149

150-169

170-182

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

First single-volume paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-280-49458-1

9786613589811

1-4008-4205-0

OCLC:

785831936