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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dominic Alexander |
| ISBN: | 9781843833949 1843833948 |
| OCLC Number: | 226975658 |
| Description: | viii, 200 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Reading the Lives of the saints -- The formation of tradition -- Monks and animals in the medieval wilderness -- The Irish variant -- Sainted princesses and the resurrection of geese -- The hermit and the hunter -- The holy wilderness: Farne Island and the cult of Saint Cuthbert -- Animal sanctuaries of the Middle Ages? -- Saint Francis and the thirtheenth century. |
| Responsibility: | Dominic Alexander. |
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(An) important and engaging book. (...) Dominic Alexander's examination of the genre of saint and animal tale provides an interpretive model which furthers our understanding of the composition, folklore, and cultural context of medieval hagiography. It is a most welcome contribution to the field. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH & GERMANIC PHILOLOGY Concise and well-written. (It) is a valuable resource for historians of the Middle Ages or for the history of Christianity. CHURCH HISTORY (The author) reinstates social history into the core of the study of the cult of saints, something that gives his book a larger value than the - assuredly fascinating - story of the interrelation between saints and animals in hagiography. (A) highly interesting and inspiring book. SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL Covering more than a thousand years of hagiographical writing, this is an ambitious and useful book. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW A work that should stimulate further thinking on the ever-fascinating study of the relationship between humans and animals. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Concise and well-written. (...) A valuable resource for historians of the Middle Ages or for the history of Christianity. CHURCH HISTORYThis fine book is much more than a study of animals in medieval Hagiography. In fact, it could have used as a subtitle indicating that one of the major topics is an exploration of the interaction between popular legend or folklore and literate, Latinate hagiography. SPECULUMAstonishes through its sheer range of meticulously assembled material, and will become a standard work. TLS Read more...
