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KLEINBERG, A., - Flesh Made Word. Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination. Translated by J.M. Todd.
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| Schrijver: | KLEINBERG, A., |
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| Titel: | Flesh Made Word. Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination. Translated by J.M. Todd. |
| ISBN: | 9780674026476 |
| Uitgever: | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.)/London, 2008. XII,340p. Half cloth with dust wrappers. |
| Bijzonderheid: | 'Aviad Kleinberg's Flesh Made Word examines the work of hagiography in Christian culture from the time of St. Perpetua in the second century to the composition and reception of the Golden Legend at the end of the thirteenth century. His central th... |
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| Meer info | radical humility), that the earlier lives, demonstrating affective piety and spontaneity, presented 'a radical, dangerous power' (p. 238). Kleinberg's final example is Jacobus de Voragine's immensely popular Golden Legend. While most modern commentators on this text suggest that the saints' lives abbreviated in it are repetitive and stereotypical, Kleinberg instead suggests that the saints in the Golden Legend are, in fact, profoundly problematic, often acting in ways that challenge normative patterns of behaviour and belief in the high and late Middle Ages.' (DONNA TREMBINSKI, in Canadian Journal of History, 2009). |
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