The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints

by Jacobus de Voragine

2021-01-01 10:45:40

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 com... Read more

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

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File size9.25 X 6 X 0 in
Print pages416
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date April 9, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780691001531

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