[PDF.70an] The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 2

The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 2

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 | #1454741 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1995-03-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.19 x1.00 x6.06l,1.31 | File type: PDF | 410 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A useful reference as the 'golden legend' became the source of ...|By John Sloan|A useful reference as the 'golden legend' became the source of much later medieval iconography found in great paintings. And as a historical reference it provides much of interest when considering European medieval thinking|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| |"[The Golden Legend] came to serve as the literary equivalent of wall-paintings and stained glass. . . . For the translation of the work in its entirety into English we have had to wait 700 years for the energy and learning of a distinguished American a

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, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to t...

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