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Gives concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of about 1,100 saints who lived or died or have been venerated in Great Britain and Ireland, or who lived in the English-speaking world. The new edition contains more early martyrs, more Eastern (Greek and Russian) saints, and some saints recently canonized.
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this delightful array . . . the sort of thing that gives hagiography a good name. (The Times)
compulsive reading (The Tablet)
excellent and readable (The Guardian)
Even those who do not believe in saints . . . will be able to enjoy and to profit from this splendid book. (Economist)
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compulsive reading (The Tablet)
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Even those who do not believe in saints . . . will be able to enjoy and to profit from this splendid book. (Economist)
About the Editor David Farmer is Reader in History at Reading University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0192820389
- ISBN 13 9780192820389
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- Edition number2
- Number of pages506
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