- Christian saints, Early works to 1800, Biography, Legends
"Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- First published
- 1476
- Pages
- 641
- Publisher
- for the Holbein Society, O. Zeller, Gallimard
- Editions
- 96
- Language
- French, cze, enm, frm
- ISBN
- 9780404067700
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