The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints: 2 Volume Set
De Voragine, Jacobus, translated by William Granger Ryan
ISBN 10: 0691001537 ISBN 13: 9780691001531
Published by Princeton University Press, 1995
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Volumes I and II, a new unused and unblemished set. Seller Inventory # 039866
Synopsis:
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, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.
About the Author: William Granger Ryan, a priest of the diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, is President Emeritus of Seton Hill College and a research scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, Yale University. This new translation of The Golden Legend (Ryan translated portions of the work in a volume published in 1941) is the first complete rendering of the Graesse edition in English.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints: 2...
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket