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Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
Sacred Biography Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
Author: Thomas J. Heffernan
Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195052251
ISBN-10: 0195052250
Publication Date: 2/2/1989
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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