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One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1229-98) attracted a huge audience across Europe. This selection of over seventy biographies ranges from the first Apostles and Roman martyrs to near-contemporaries such as St Dominic, St Francis of Assissi and St Elizabeth of Hungary. Here, witnesses to the true faith endure horrific tortures; reformed prostitutes win divine forgiveness; while other women live disguised as monks or nobly resist lustful tyrants. Lucid and compelling, The Golden Legend offers an enthralling insight into the medieval mind. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0140446486

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The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (Illustrated)

By: Jacobus de Voragine

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The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (Illustrated)

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The thirteenth century Italian chronicler Jacobus de Voragine was the author of ‘The Golden Legend’, a collection of 153 hagiographies, narrating the colourful adventures of Christian saints. The most widely read book after the Bible in the late Middle Ages, it recounts for the first time some of the most famous exploits of the saints, including the valiant St. George slaying the dragon, the life of St. Barbara and the legendary adventures of Mary Magdalen, among many others. In spite of its dubious historicity, ‘The Golden Legend’ remains one of the most important sources for the analysis of Christian iconography, offering an invaluable window into the beliefs and spiritual wonders of the medieval world. Delphi’s Medieval Library provides eReaders with rare and precious works of the Middle Ages, with noted English translations and the original texts. This eBook presents Jacobus’ 'The Golden Legend', with illustrations, an informative introduction and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Jacobus’ life and works * Features the ‘The Golden Legend’ in English translation, with key selections from the original Latin text * Features William Caxton’s translation, revised by Frederick Startridge Ellis in 1900 * Concise introduction to the text * Images of famous paintings that have been inspired by Jacobus’ works * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the ‘Lives’ you want to read with individual contents tables * Special ‘Highlights’ contents table, allowing you to browse easily the more famous ‘Lives’ * Features two bonus biographies — discover Jacobus’ medieval world CONTENTS: The Translation The Golden Legend (1265) Highlights from ‘The Golden Legend’ Detailed Table of Contents The Original Text Selections from the Latin Text The Biographies Jacobus de Voragine (1911) Blessed Jacopo de Voragine (1913) by Michael Ott

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1801701849

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9781801701846

The Golden Legend

Readings on the Saints

By: Jacobus de Voragine

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The Golden Legend

Readings on the Saints

By: Jacobus de Voragine

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.

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811

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Princeton University Press

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0691154074

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9780691154077

The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (Illustrated)

By: Jacobus de Voragine

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The Golden Legend

Readings on the Saints

By: Jacobus de Voragine

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Readings on the Saints

By: Jacobus de Voragine

In the course of reading these stories, which are arranged according to the order of saints' feasts days throughout the liturgical year, readers happen upon many fascinating cultural and historical topics. At the same time, these stories draw abundantly on Holy Scripture to shed light on the mysteries of the Christian faith.

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Princeton University Press

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0691001537

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Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat

By: Donka Markus

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Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat

By: Donka Markus

This intermediate Latin reader is designed to strengthen students' reading skills through an accessible and entertaining text. ... The text included in this reader is Jacobus de Voragine's abridged Latin version of the legend of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat. The Latin of Jacobus, a 13th-century compiler, offers excellent opportunities for the systematic learning of the peculiarities of Late and Medieval Latin."--Provided by publisher.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053841

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Women of the Gilte Legende

A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives

By: Jacobus (de Voragine),Larissa Tracy

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Women of the Gilte Legende

A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives

By: Jacobus (de Voragine),Larissa Tracy

This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints spoke passionately about their convictions and defended their faith and their bodies to the death. For over 400 years, these amazing vernacular stories have been inaccessible to a wider audience. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "ryght hooly virgins", who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; "holy mothers", who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the 'repentant sinners', who convert and voice their defiance against a society that demanded silence in women; and the "holy transvestites", who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation. Their lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, academic and non-academic, forcing a re-examination of women's roles in the medieval period. LARISSA TRACY is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Series editor JANE CHANCE

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DS Brewer

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0859917711

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St. Benedict's Bones

A Medieval Monastic Mystery

By: Jacobus de Voragine,Adrevald of Fleury,Peter the Deacon

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St. Benedict's Bones

A Medieval Monastic Mystery

By: Jacobus de Voragine,Adrevald of Fleury,Peter the Deacon

St. Benedict of Norcia (480–547) is indisputably one of the most influential figures in the development of the culture and spirituality of Western Europe and is recognized as the “patriarch of all monks of the West.” Shortly after Benedict’s death, his monastery at Monte Cassino was destroyed by Lombard invaders. It was at that point that one of the greatest mysteries of medieval monasticism arose—the true location of the mortal remains of this revered saint. This volume presents the first English translations of key medieval texts relating to this famous mystery. These piquant narratives are filled with adventure, intrigue, and spellbinding wonder, in which imagination, history, folklore, and legend are freely intertwined. Within these pages, the reader will encounter fierce barbarian hordes, perilous quests to discover ancient tombs, ferocious dragons, man-eating wolves, mysterious visions, and enigmatic oracles. Here will be found tales of saints fleeing from papal forces under the shroud of darkness, phantasmagoric apparitions of dead monks, malicious poisonings, nocturnal attacks made on infants by venomous toads, levitating lamps, and a veritable multitude of other marvels. A translation of the striking account of St. Benedict’s life from the thirteenth-century Golden Legend is also included.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666737429

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Women of the Gilte Legende

A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives

By: Jacobus (de Voragine),Larissa Tracy

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A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives

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The Golden Legend

Readings on the Saints

By: Jacobus de Voragine

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Readings on the Saints

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The Golden Legend

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Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat

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