The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.

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The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.

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The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints

The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints

The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints

The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints

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Overview

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691001531
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 04/09/1995
Series: Golden Legend Series , #1
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Granger Ryan, a priest of the diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, is President Emeritus of Seton Hill College and a research scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, Yale University. This new translation of The Golden Legend (Ryan translated portions of the work in a volume published in 1941) is the first complete rendering of the Graesse edition in English.
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