Le vain siecle Guerpir: A Literary Approach to Sainthood through Old French Hagiography of the Twelfth Century
ISBN: 9781469642963
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Christian hagiography; Christian saints in literature;

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. Divided into two parts, the first is devoted to aspects of the hero-saint and savior-saint, and the second, organized alphabetically by saint's name, engages the French hagiographic traditions.


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