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Voragine, Jacobus De:
Golden Legend, Volume II - Taschenbuch

ISBN: 9780691001548

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: University Press Group Ltd], 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. 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. Review: ... [The Golden Legend] came to serve as the literary equivalent of wall-paintings and stained glass. . . . For the translation of the work in its entirety into English we have had to wait 700 years for the energy and learning of a distinguished American academic, William Granger Ryan. Gerard Irvine(The Times Literary Supplement) ... Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it inside-out.... [F]or the rest of us it remains a treasure-house of European culture, crammed full of the things which everyone, once upon a time, used to know. Noel Malcolm(Sunday Telegraph) ... [The Golden Legend] came to serve as the literary equivalent of wall-paintings and stained glass.... [F]or the translation of the work in its entirety into English we have had to wait 700 years for the energy and learning of a distinguished American academic, William Granger Ryan. Gerard Irvine(The Times Literary Supplement) ... A labor of love, as well as a product of great erudition. The translation is a complete, thoughtful, and judicious one. Thomas Head(The Catholic Historical Review) ... An unequaled source book for the study of the art and literature of the high Middle Ages.... [de Voragine] showed himself to be a narrative artist of the first rank, and in Ryan's fine English version we have a splendid volume that can take its place somewhere between Butler's Lives of the Saints and Aesop's Fables. George Sim Johnston(The New Criterion) ... To the labor of Father Ryan, whose stylish translation now affords us the means [to eye Voragine's purpose and method], we owe an enormous debt. Brian Masters(Literary Review) 410 pages Versandfertig in 2-4 Wochen, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)

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de Voragine, Jacobus / Jacobus / Ryan, William Granger:
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Volume II - gebrauchtes Buch

ISBN: 9780691001548

ID: 2543257

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. The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Volume II de Voragine, Jacobus / Jacobus / Ryan, William Granger, Princeton University Press

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Jacobus de Voragine, William Granger Ryan:
002: The Golden Legend, Volume II: Readings on the Saints: v. 2 (Golden Legend Vol. 2) - Taschenbuch

ISBN: 0691001545

[SR: 321979], Paperback, [EAN: 9780691001548], Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Book, [PU: Princeton University Press], 1995-04-09, Princeton University Press, 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. This title presents an English translation of the complete text., 271650, Rome, 271237, Ancient History & Civilisation, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 771718, World History, 12447629031, Civilisation & Culture, 12447630031, Cold War, 278066, Discovery & Exploration, 772016, Maritime History & Piracy, 275899, Revolutions & Coups, 772066, Slavery, 276593, Women in History, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 275130, Classical, Early & Medieval, 591426, By Period, 275117, Poetry, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 277267, Catholic, 277270, Inspirational, 277272, Popes, 277274, Saints, 277275, Self Help, 277372, Theology, 277266, Christianity, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 277300, Church History, 277266, Christianity, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 497460, Early Church, 277266, Christianity, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 277365, Theology, 277366, Bible, 277371, Catechisms, 277372, Catholic, 277373, Doctrine, 277376, Philosophy, 277377, Protestant, 277266, Christianity, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 772028, History, 277266, Christianity, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 277549, History, 277544, Religious Studies, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books

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de Voragine, Jacobus; Ryan, William Granger:
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 2 - Taschenbuch

ISBN: 9780691001548

ID: 1030623109

Princeton University Press. PAPERBACK. 0691001545 Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. . Fine., Princeton University Press

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Jacobus de Voragine:
The Golden Legend, Volume II - Taschenbuch

1995, ISBN: 9780691001548

ID: 459112

Softcover, Buch, [PU: Princeton University Press]