Le Vain Siecle Guerpir: A Literary Approach to Sainthood Through Old French Hagiography of the Twelfth Century by Brigitte Cazelles, Phyllis Johnson

Le Vain Siecle Guerpir: A Literary Approach to Sainthood Through Old French Hagiography of the Twelfth Century

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu

Brigitte Cazelles, Phyllis Johnson

324 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction literary poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of saints on ordinary men and the relationship between holiness and heroism in the twelfth century. Divide...

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