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Book The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine  Illustrated

Download or read book The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine Illustrated written by Jacobus de Voragine and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 2181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book The Golden Legend

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine

Download or read book The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Search of Sacred Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacques Le Goff
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-12
  • ISBN : 0691204543
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book In Search of Sacred Time written by Jacques Le Goff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imagination It is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, who was one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid and compelling account that shows how The Golden Legend Christianized time itself, reconciling human and divine temporality. Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.

Book The Golden Legend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacobus de Voragine
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1995-04-09
  • ISBN : 9780691001531
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobus de Voragine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Golden Legend

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, and other books of a like kind; while for the lives of the saints more nearly approaching his own age he appears to have industriously collected such legends as he could meet with, whether in manuscript or handed down by oral tradition."--Prologue.

Book Leaves from the Golden Legend

Download or read book Leaves from the Golden Legend written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Legend

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  • Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1878
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legenda Aurea

Download or read book The Legenda Aurea written by Sherry L. Reames and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century a young Dominican friar, Jacobus de Voragine, compiled the book that came to be known as the Legenda aurea, a collection of medieval lore about the saints and holidays of the church. Through the centuries this noted book has had a conspicuously uneven reputation: enormous popularity in the late Middle Ages, a precipitous decline during the Renaissance, and a gradual rehabilitation in the modern era. Sherry L. Reames's study of the Legenda aurea offers the first comprehensive account of the book's history and of the qualities that differentiate it from earlier and less controversial works about the saints. The fresh perspective introduced by this study will provide new insights and challenge old myths for historians, literary critics, theologians, and students concerned with medieval culture and hagiography.

Book The Golden Legend  Or  Lives of the Saints

Download or read book The Golden Legend Or Lives of the Saints written by Frederick Startridge Ell William Caxton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Golden Legend

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Legend

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  • Author : Jacobus (De Voragine)
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019732205
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobus (De Voragine) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of the medieval Church with this classic work on the lives of the saints. Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend provides a detailed overview of the lives of various saints, including their early lives, their miracles, and their deaths. Through de Voragine's vivid storytelling, readers are transported back in time to witness the heroic deeds and powerful miracles of these holy men and women. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Church or medieval Europe. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Mary  the Apostles  and the Last Judgment

Download or read book Mary the Apostles and the Last Judgment written by Stanislava Kuzmova and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the visual art and the written text, the early Christian roots and medieval reception, the East and the West, as well as methodologies of various disciplines. The studies in this volume firstly investigate issues related to the Virgin Mary, and through them, also the status, function, and identity of women. Mary and the female element thus represent significant models and/or background figures in fields pertaining to theology, religious studies, textual studies, manuscript studies, and art history in a trans-disciplinary perspective. Secondly, the studies focus on the apostles and the Last Judgment, their visual representations and the use of apocryphal sources. The volume is divided in two parts according to two major topics: Part I dealing with Mary in the Apocrypha, and Part II focusing on the Apostles and the Last Judgment.

Book The Golden Legend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1995-04-09
  • ISBN : 9780691001548
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Golden Day

Download or read book The Golden Day written by Ursula Dubosarsky and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery. The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they had met in the Garden? What actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important — who can they tell about it? In beautifully shimmering prose, Ursula Dubosarsky reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young lives forever. Part gripping thriller, part ethereal tale of innocence lost, The Golden Day is a poignant study of fear and friendship, and of what it takes to come of age with courage.

Book Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England

Download or read book Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England written by Sarah Salih and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.

Book First Nights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300091052
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book First Nights written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.