Sacred biography : saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages /
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 o...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988
New York : 1988 New York ; Oxford : 1988 New York ; 2023 |
Edition: | New ed |
Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book Oxford scholarship online |
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