The Golden Legend, Volume I

Name: The Golden Legend, Volume I
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SKU: 9780691001531
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Readings on the Saints

By Jacobus de Voragine

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The Golden Legend, Volume I presents a captivating collection of saints' lives, blending both historical and legendary tales. This seminal medieval text offers rich, vivid narratives that illuminate popular religious culture and medieval artistry, providing a vital resource for those interested in the period's art, literature, and spirituality.
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The Golden Legend, Volume I

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This volume is essential for readers interested in religion, medieval history, art history, and literature. It suits scholars, students, and anyone fascinated by popular medieval spirituality and cultural traditions.

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. This title captures the immediacy of this image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature.

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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 work.

This translation offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.

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Critics praise William Granger Ryan's modern English translation as a highly erudite and thoughtful labour of love. Noted reviewers highlight the text's importance as a cultural treasure and indispensable source for medievalists and art historians alike. The work is celebrated for its storytelling artistry and its role akin to medieval stained glass and wall paintings in educating and inspiring readers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691001531

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 1995

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Contributors:

Translated by William Granger Ryan

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 595g

Pages: 416

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Biography & Memoir Jacobus de Voragine Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

William Granger Ryan, a priest of the diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, is President Emeritus of Seton Hill College and a research scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, Yale University. This new translation of The Golden Legend (Ryan translated portions of the work in a volume published in 1941) is the first complete rendering of the Graesse edition in English.

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