Overview :Second printing, in orignal dust jacket. Jacket has some color fading on the spine and the back as well as a few pieces of loss. The fore ed... Read More
Overview :How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imaginationIt is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The G... Read More
Overview :Translated by William Claxton in 1483, The Golden Legend became one of the first books printed in English. Originally written in Latin by th... Read More
Overview :St. Benedict of Norcia (480-547) is indisputably one of the most influential figures in the development of the culture and spirituality of W... Read More
Overview :This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, ... Read More
Overview :Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, aft... Read More
Overview :Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories--some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking--Th... Read More
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... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :These stories have the effect of bringing the saints to life as real people. In the course of reading these stories we happen upon many fasc... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :The famous saint biographies by 13th century chronicler Jacobus de Voragine are a classic of Christian literature; this edition contains the... Read More
Overview :*** UNABRIDGED PREMIUM EDITION IN SEVEN VOLUMES ***AMONG the books which afford us an insight into he popular religious thought of the middl... Read More
Overview :Cette collection de courtes biographies de saints a été compilée par Jacques de Voragine au XIIIe siècle. Un best-seller du Moyen Âge, cet o... Read More
Overview :Dating back to the 13th century, this classic work by Jacobus de Voragine is a compendium of hagiography, or the legends and stories surroun... Read More