Hagiography and Early Medieval History1

In the first half of the 1990s, several scholars challenged the idea of hagiography as a genre in late antiquity and the early and central Middle Ages. Focusing on pre-twelfth-century Latin narratives about saints, I briefly survey scholarship from the last two decades and consider how it has engage...

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Main Author: Taylor, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
In: Religion compass
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14
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