Reading Saints’ Lives and Striving to Live as Saints : Reading and Rewriting Medieval Hagiography
Thesis advisor: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner === This study demonstrates the essential connection between literature and history by examining the way selected saints’ lives were read and rewritten in Latin and Old French from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Building on the concept of the horizon o...
Main Author: | Schenck, William Casper |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Boston College
2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1368 |
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