Early Medieval Hagiography / / James T. Palmer.
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 med...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press eBook Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Past Imperfect
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
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| Other title: | 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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| 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. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781641890892 9783110606720 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781641890892?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | James T. Palmer. |