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The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 2
The Golden Legend Readings on the Saints Vol 2
Author: Jacobus de Voragine
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories--some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking--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 eventual archbishop of Genoa, wh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691001548
ISBN-10: 0691001545
Publication Date: 3/20/1995
Pages: 410
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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