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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work, which...

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories--some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking--The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and eventual archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In his new translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger...

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.

Den Namen "Legenda aurea" verdankt das von Jacobus de Voragine - dem spateren Erzbischof von Genua - zwischen 1260 und 1270 zusammengestellte lateinische Legendenwerk seinem ungewohnlichen Erfolg: neben mehr als 1000 lateinischen Manuskriptfassungen und Fruhdrucken ist eine noch nicht erfate Zahl von spatmittelalterlichen volkssprachlichen Ubersetzungen und Bearbeitungen der Sammlung uberliefert. Aus dem Sprachbereich der langue d'oc sind drei bisher unedierte Handschriften erhalten (Version A, B, C), die alle eine enge Beziehung zur altesten katalanischen "Legenda aurea" erkennen...