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• Title:The Golden legend : readings on the Saints / Jacobus de Voragine ; translated by William Granger Ryan ; with an introduction by Eamon Duffy.
  
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• Author/Creator:Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ryan, William Granger, 1905-1996.
  Duffy, Eamon.
  Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Legenda aurea. English.
  Project Muse Archive Complete Supplement III Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Call Number: BX4654
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Legenda aurea.
  Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800--Translations into English.
  
• Description:1 online resource ; cm.
  
• Summary: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 translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work, which offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. Arranged according to the order of saints' feast days, these fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the work.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Translated from the Latin.
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:1400842050 (electronic bk.)
  9781400842056 (electronic bk.)
  9780691154077
  0691154074