Format:
1 Online-Ressource (122 pages)
ISBN:
9781641890892
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1641890894
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9781641890908
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1641890886
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9781641890885
Series Statement:
Past imperfect
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Making saints (up) -- Collecting saints' stories -- Historians and the quest for truth -- Hagiographies and early medieval history.
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In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781641890885
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
