Sacred Biography : Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages

Name: Sacred Biography
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195079074
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ISBN: 9780195079074

by Thomas J. Heffernan

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0195079078

ISBN-13 9780195079074

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 26th, 1992

Print length 352 Pages

Weight 410 grams

Dimensions 21.00 x 14.00 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Christian theology

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Modern historiography dismisses the medieval lives of saints about whom little was really known as "pious fiction". This study demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous nor blinded by piety.

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 blinded by piety. Concentrating on Latin and English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective, arguing that such biographical writing presupposes an entirely different view of the world and the self, and presents new ideas of sin and guilt, of what was real and what imaginary, and for what one should live and die. Offering a new perspective on Christian literary expression, this book will appeal to scholars in Medieval, Religious and New Testament studies, Feminist Studies, and those interested in the history of Christian spirituality.

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