Early medieval hagiography /

Early medieval hagiography /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Palmer, James T. (James Trevor), author.
Imprint:	Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (122 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Past imperfect Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)
Subject:	Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500. Hagiographers -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Christian hagiography. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Hagiographers. Europe. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12590275

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ISBN:	9781641890892 1641890894 9781641890908 1641890908 1641890886 9781641890885 9781641890885
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. In English. Project MUSE; title from digital cover (viewed on December 21, 2018).
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781641890885
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781641890892.

Table of Contents:

Making saints (up)
Collecting saints' stories
Historians and the quest for truth
Hagiographies and early medieval history.