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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies Translations Biography Translations into English |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Head, Thomas. Medieval Hagiography : An Anthology. New York : Routledge, ©2018 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Head |
ISBN: | 9781317325147 1317325141 9781317325154 131732515X |
OCLC Number: | 1082970960 |
Notes: | Originally published in print: London? : Garland, 2000. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Translations; Contributors; Chapter 1: Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Antony of Egypt; Chapter 2: Victricius of Rouen, In Praise of the Saints; Chapter 3 : Mark the Deacon, Life of St. Porphyry of Gaza; Chapter 4: Constantine the Great, the Empress Helena, and the Relics of the Holy Cross; Chapter 5: Life of the Holy Virgin Samthann; Chapter 6: Jonas of Bobbio, The Abbots of Bobbio from the Life of St. Columbanus; Chapter 7: Dado of Rouen, Life of St. Eligius of Noyon. Chapter 8: Bede, MartyrologyChapter 9: Einhard, Translation of the Relics of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter; Chapter 10: Raguel, Martyrdom of St. Pelagius; Chapter 11: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, The Establishment of the Monastery of Gandersheim; Chapter 12: Odilo of Cluny, Epitaph of the August Lady, Adelheid; Chapter 13: The Cult of Relics in the Eleventh Century; Chapter 14: Peter Damian, Life of St. Romuald of Ravenna; Chapter 15: Life of St. Alexis; Chapter 16: The Miracles of St. Ursmer on His Journey through Flanders; Chapter 17: Drogo of Sint-Winoksbergen, Life of St. Godelieve. Chapter 18: Hartvic, Life of King Stephen of HungaryChapter 19: Guibert of Nogent, On Saints and Their Relics; Chapter 20: A Tale of Doomsday Colum Cille Should Have Left Untold; Chapter 21: Life of the Dear Friends Amicus and Amelius; Chapter 22: The Book of Ely; Chapter 23: The Tract on the Conversion of Pons of Léras and the True Account of the Beginning of the Monastery at Silvanès; Chapter 24: Thomas of Monmouth, Life and Passion of St. William of Norwich; Chapter 25: The Jewish Martyrs of Blois; Chapter 26: Liturgical Offices for the Cult of St. Thomas Becket. Chapter 27: Saga of Bishop Jón of HólarChapter 28: Gautier de Coincy, Miracles of the Virgin Mary; Chapter 29: The Cult of Mary Magdalen in Late Medieval France; Chapter 30: The Lives of St. Margaret of Antioch in Late Medieval England; Chapter 31: The Middle-English version of Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie d'Oignies; Chapter 32: Peter of the Morrone (Pope Celestine V), Autobiography; Chapter 33: The Life of St. David set down by an Anchorite at Llanddewibrefi; Chapter 34: The Old Czech Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria; Chapter 35: The Canonization Process for St. Vincent Ferrer. |
Series Title: | Garland Library of Medieval Literature Ser. |
Responsibility: | edited by Thomas Head. |
Abstract:
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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