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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 preserving a vast store of
information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church.
In this translation, the first in English of the complete text,
William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work,
which offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval
art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious
culture.
Arranged according to the order of saints' feast days, these
fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition
also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the
work.
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.
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. It was compiled
around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and eventual
archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and
edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information
pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In his new
translation, the first in English of the complete text, 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, more generally, in popular
religious culture.
These stories have the effect of bringing the saints to life as
real people, in the context of late thirteenth-century living, but
in them the saints do things that ordinary people can only wonder
at. There is St. Juliana, who, fed up with the propositions of a
dull-witted demon, gives him a sound thrashing and tosses him in
the sewer; St. Hilary, who challenges the authority of a corrupt
pope and foresees the prelate's death; and St. James the
Dismembered, who, with the chopping off of each body part by the
Roman executioner, joyfully proclaims yet another reason for loving
God.
In the course of reading these stories, which are arranged
according to the order of saints' feast days throughout the
liturgical year, we happen upon many fascinating cultural and
historical topics, such as the Christianization of Roman holidays,
the symbolism behind the monk's tonsure, Nero's "pregnancy," and
the reason why chaste but hot-blooded women can grow beards. At the
same time these stories draw abundantly on Holy Scripture to shed
light on the mysteries of the Christian faith. The chapters devoted
to Christ and to the Blessed Virgin are particularly moving
examples of the mingling of doctrine and narrative to give life to
dogma.
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General Theory of Law (Paperback)
Nikolai Mikhailovich Korkunov, William Granger Hastings
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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
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George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
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LibraryLP3Y049890019220101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926Translation of
Leketisii po obshchei teorii prava (romanized form) Series title
also at head of t.p.New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922xxviii,
524 p.; 22 cmUnited States
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