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Sacred Biography - Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed)
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Sacred Biography - Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 relation to the community for which it was written;
identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and
demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval
saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the
process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate
understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new
critical method that has important implications for the practice of
textual criticism.
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