[PDF.78os] The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints

The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints

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 | #773973 in Books |  2012-04-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x1.70 x6.00l,2.55 | File type: PDF | 848 pages

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||29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.| Abridged, and w/o warning|By Happy Helena|Nowhere in the intro or apparatus to this translation does the publisher tell us that this is an ABRIDGED version of the GL. If you look at the Medieval Sourcebook (online) and check Caxton's 1483 edition of the GL, you find all sorts of other stories--such as of Adam, Noah, Ten Commandments, etc. that do not appear here. So, while th| |"[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 a

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, 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 later 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 this trans...

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