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The Legends of the Saints: With a Memoir of the Author » Read Now
by Hippolyte Delehaye. 252 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography . The present new translation has been...The recent advances in scientific hagiography have given rise to more than...
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Saints' Legends » Read Now
by Gordon Hall Gerould. 396 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THE TYPES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE EDITED BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON SAINTS LEGENDS BY GORDON HALL GEROULD SAINTS LEGENDS BY GORDON HALL GEROULD PROFESSOR OF...
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Sainted Women of the Dark Ages » Read Now
by Jo Ann McNamara, John E. Halborg, E. Gordon Whatley. 344 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...late John Cox. The members of the Hagiography Group of New York have been uniformly...in sources of any kind. Merovingian hagiography was a flourishing literary genre...
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Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend, in Journal of the History of Sexuality » Read Now
by Ruth Mazo Karras. 30 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...be discussed following the others. HAGIOGRAPHY, CULTURAL HISTORY, AND PROSTITUTION Hagiography provides a rich source for medieval culture...Legends of the Saints: An...
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Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography » Read Now
by John Kitchen. 255 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female sanctity which only female hagiographers managed to properly articulate, and important writings have been attributed to female authors on that...
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Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female sanctity which only female hagiographers managed to properly articulate, and important writings have been attributed to female authors on that assumption. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen tests such claims through a close examination of several texts--lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes--from sixth century France. He argues that sometimes the "authentic voice" of the female writer or saint sounds emphatically male. This study gives examples of how both male and female authors sometimes depicted holy women talking, acting, or even dressing like their male counterparts. Ultimately, the author aims to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of or hostile toward certain--specifically female--concerns. By the same token, Kitchen's work raises serious methodological problems with the gender approach to the hagiographic literature of the early Middle Ages.
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Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators » Read Now
by John W. Coakley. 356 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations » Read Now
by Leslie Ross. 218 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery...
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Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations.
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How to Distinguish the Saints in Art by Their Costumes, Symbols, and Attributes » Read Now
by Arthur De Bles. 170 pgs.

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The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint » Read Now
by Gail Ashton. 176 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both...
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In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them.
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Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend » Read Now
by Antonina Harbus. 215 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations » Read Now
by Reginald A. Ray. 510 pgs.

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The issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of sources, Ray seeks to identify the...
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The issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of sources, Ray seeks to identify the "classical type" of the Buddhist saint, as it provides the presupposition for, and informs, the different major Buddhist saintly types and subtypes. Discussing the nature, dynamics, and history of Buddhist hagiography, he surveys the ascetic codes, conventions and traditions of Buddhist saints, and the cults both of living saints and of those who have "passed beyond." Ray traces the role of the saints in Indian Buddhist history, examining the beginnings of Buddhism and the origin of Mahayana Buddhism.
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Buddhist Hagiographies in Early Japan: Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition » Read Now
by Joanthan Morris Augustine. 173 pgs.

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Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred...
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Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred objects. In Japan, it was believed that those who read the biographies of lofty monks would acquire merit. Since hagiographies were written or compiled by 'believers', the line between fantasy and reality was often obscured. This study of the bodhisattva Gyoki - regarded as the monk who started the largest social welfare movement in Japan - illustrates how Japanese Buddhist hagiographers chose to regard a single monk's charitable activities as a miraculous achievement that shaped the course of Japanese history.
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Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750 » Read Now
by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela. 204 pgs.

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Spain' attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial...
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Spain' attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious women participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico. The author argues that the New World context necessitated the creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine that emerge from the reworking of a nun' letters to her confessor into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent' trial for heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women.
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To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents » Read Now
by Robert Ford Campany. 607 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

"This book marks a new milestone in the study of Chinese religious history. Only a scholar as intelligent and dedicated as Campany would dare tackle and so eloquently translate one of the most important and difficult works of early Chinese religious history."--Paul Katz, author of "Images of the...
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"This book marks a new milestone in the study of Chinese religious history. Only a scholar as intelligent and dedicated as Campany would dare tackle and so eloquently translate one of the most important and difficult works of early Chinese religious history."--Paul Katz, author of "Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lu Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy
"This is a pathbreaking work of lasting significance to the field of Chinese religious history. The scholarship is solid and current, drawing upon the best research from America, Europe, China, and Japan. The translation is accurate, clear, and elegant, based upon an innovative analysis of surviving sources."--Terry Kleeman, author of "Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom
"A competent translation of Ge Hong's hagiographies, with close attention paid to sources and editions, would already have constituted a major contribution to the field of Taoist studies. But Campany provides as well a survey of religious practices in Ge Hong's writings and a reading of the hagiographies which enables us to see the social practices that lie behind them. Together, these two works-in-one constitute the best available portrait of religion and society in early fourth-century China."--John Lagerwey, author of "Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History
"Campany's annotated translation of Ge Hong's (283-343) classic, the first in English, admirably captures the book's rich evocation of the religious culture of Southern China in the fourth century. Ge Hong here offers a series of case studies of what he regarded as the historical and exemplary evidence for the existence of immortals. This translation ofTraditions of Divine Transcendents conveys a lively and multifaceted vision of the Taoist conception of physical immortality. The book's emphasis on practices related to the cult of the immortals and the hope for transcendence squa
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The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century » Read Now
by Brigitte Cazelles. 334 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library
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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia » Read Now
by Juliane Schober. 368 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library