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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia
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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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Some Reflections on Sacred Biography
2016Any reflections on sacred biography would be incomplete without some reference to the miracles' of the saints. As the medieval period progressed, sacred biography became further enhanced by the adoption of new images of literary style and stereotypic forms.
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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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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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