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Sacred Biography
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.
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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.
| ISBN / EAN | 9780195079074 |
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| Auteur | Heffernan, Thomas J. (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Tennessee) |
| Editeur | Oxford University Press Inc |