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Early Medieval Hagiography / James T. Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Past ImperfectPublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (134 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781641890885
  • 9781641890892
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Making Saints (Up) -- Chapter 2. Collecting Saints' Stories -- Chapter 3. Historians and the Quest for Truth -- Chapter 4. Hagiographies and Early Medieval History -- Further Reading
Summary: Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of different modern methodologies used to interrogate hagiographies, from early twentieth-century source criticism, to the insights gained from gender studies, postmodernism and digital humanities.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781641890892

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Making Saints (Up) -- Chapter 2. Collecting Saints' Stories -- Chapter 3. Historians and the Quest for Truth -- Chapter 4. Hagiographies and Early Medieval History -- Further Reading

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Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of different modern methodologies used to interrogate hagiographies, from early twentieth-century source criticism, to the insights gained from gender studies, postmodernism and digital humanities.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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