Golden Legend, Volume I - Readings on the Saints

Zusatztext "This new translation by William Granger Ryan . . . offers the modern reader a window into popular piety of the High Middle Ages and sharpens the fuzzy recollection most of us have of the stories passed down in the Christian oral tradition of the fantastic feats of ancient and medieval saints." Informationen zum Autor William Granger Ryan , a priest of the diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, is President Emeritus of Seton Hill College and a research scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, Yale University. This new translation of The Golden Legend (Ryan translated portions of the work in a volume published in 1941) is the first complete rendering of the Graesse edition in English. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This title captures the immediacy of this image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Jacobus , Jacobus de Voragine, Jacobus, Jacobus De Voragine
• Assisted by: William G. Ryan (Translation), William Granger Ryan (Translation), Ryan William Granger (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.1995
• EAN: 9780691001531
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00153-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Golden Legend Vol. 1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Essays, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Literary essays, The Early Church