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Sacred Biography
Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 1992
1649 kr
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Medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, yet are routinely patronized as "pious fiction". Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither simply credulous or …
Sacred Biography
Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
E-bok, 1992
1181 kr
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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 …
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Inbunden, 2012
3601 kr
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One of the most widely read and studied texts produced in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of a young woman who was martyred in the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration. Her name was Perpetua, and, despite her honorable marriage and her baby son, she refused to recant …
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
E-bok, 2011
2509 kr
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Winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a …
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Volume 6
Av Thomas J. Heffernan, Thomas J. Heffernan
Inbunden, 1984
1071 kr
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later …
