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Saints’ Lives and Sacred Biography
2023Abstract This chapter surveys poetic approaches to composing the lives of saints in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The virgin martyr legends comprising the Katherine Group, written during the first quarter of the thirteenth century, occupy the nebulous territory between verse and prose.
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The Story of the Buddha’s Begging Bowl: Imagining a Biography and Sacred Places
2007exaly +2 more sources
Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages by Thomas J. Heffernan
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1990exaly +2 more sources
1992
Abstract Medieval “saints’ lives” are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, yet are routinely patronized as “pious fiction”. Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither simply credulous or blinded by piety. Concentrating
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Abstract Medieval “saints’ lives” are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, yet are routinely patronized as “pious fiction”. Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither simply credulous or blinded by piety. Concentrating
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Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space by David J. Howlett (review)
Ohio History, 2016exaly +2 more sources
Traces of Female Voices and Women's Lives in Tibetan Male Sacred Biography
Life Writing, 2019Scholars have tended to overlook information about female religious specialists in thousands of biographies written about Tibetan male masters, as well as the multiple authorship of many of these t...
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Sacred Female Biographies in the Bon Religion: A 20th Century gTer-Ma
2008The present contribution is focused upon a treasure-text (gter ma) brought to light by a lady called bDe-chen Chos-kyi dBang-mo, who was born in Nyag-[rong]-shod, the lower part of present-day dKar-mdzes (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, in 1868.
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Sacred Biography as Historical Narrative: Testing the Tradition, Gibbon to Gadamer
1992Abstract These quotations from Lee and Boccaccio highlight the gulf which separates the medieval from the modern sensibility on the issue of authority and judgment. For Boccaccio, and, no doubt, the majority of medieval men and women, the evidence of the senses was at best only a corroborating proof, and a secondary one at that, in the ...
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