Jacobus de Voragine

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, 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 later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while...

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled...

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. Compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and eventual archbishop of Genoa, its purpose was to captivate, encourage, and...