The saint's life and the senses of scripture : hagiography as exegesis / Ann W. Astell.
| Author/creator | Astell, Ann W. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2024] |
| Description | 380 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Brief candle: the Saint's life as Biblical illumination -- Part 1. The Saint's Life in the Age of Monasticism -- 1. Psalm use, prayer, and prophecy in the Lives of Saint Guthlac -- 2. Hexaemeral miracles in Saint Aelred of Rievaulx's Live of Ninian -- 3. The Song of Songs and Saint Bernard of Clarivaux's Life of Saint Malachy -- 4. Eadmer's parabolic Life and History of Saint Anselm of Canterbury: a twice-told tale -- Part 2. The Saint's Life in the Scholastic Age -- 5. Saint Francis of Assisi as "New Evangelist" in Thomas of Celano's Vita prima and Bonaventure's Legenda maior -- 6. Heroic virtue in Blessed Raymond of Capua's Life of Catherine of Siena -- 7. Mary Magdalene and the Eucharist: reading Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea with Catherine of Siena, Raymond of Capua, and Osbern Bokenham -- Part 3. The Saint's Life in Modernity -- 8. The ends of hagiography: Erasmus's Jerome, Harpsfield's Life of More, and More's Epitaph -- 9. Modern literary experiments in Biblical hagiography -- 10. Historical truth, Biblical criticism, and hagiography. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-371) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Astell, Ann W. The saint's life and the senses of scripture. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. 9780268208110 |
| ISBN | 9780268208110 |
| ISBN | 0268208115 |