Modern Saints: Their Lives and Faces (vol. 2)

Originally published in 1951 (with minor updates in 2002), the book covers the nature of God, the nature of man, the mea

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English Year 1990

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

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In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany i

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The consistency with which these patterns appear sheds new light on the conventions of Old English poetic hagiography.

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How do we know what we know about saints?

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The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europ

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A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family takin

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