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Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
Thomas J. Heffernan
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| #2606829 in Books | Thomas J Heffernan | 1992-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.91 x5.50l,.91 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | Sacred Biography Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Clear and Compelling|By CLE Grad Student|I found this book to be extremely helpful. I appreciated the early discussion of Positivist thought on the study of Medieval vitae. Conversations about our anachronistic notions regarding "hagiography" (a category which has come to be disputed) are key to any discussion about the genre and the information that we can draw from those text|||"With this splendid book, Heffernan offers a provocative reassessment of the nature and importance of medieval saints' lives. Arguing that modern scholarship, bound by its historical-critical methodology, has not understood the underlying principles of this
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 fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relat...
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