Modern Saints Book 2: Their Lives and Faces

Modern Saints Book 1: Their Lives and Their Faces

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Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530 (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) 9780195329537, 0195329538

In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany i

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Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts 0791427161, 9780791427163

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

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Book of All Saints

Adrienne von Speyr, a renowned mystic and spiritual writer from Switzerland, was received into the Catholic Church at th

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Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy 9780231503396

The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europ

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Saints Alive: Word, Image, and Enactment in the Lives of the Saints 9780773590991

How do we know what we know about saints?

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Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes 0930042441, 9780930042448

The advent of Christianity ushered in a new biographical hero, the saint, as classical secular biography yielded to hagi

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Dorling Kindersley. Philosophers: Their Lives and Works

From Confucius and Plato to Karl Marx and Noam Chomsky, this book brings together more than 100 illustrated biographies

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Philosophers : their lives and works 9781465482037, 1465482032

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Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland 184384611X, 9781843846116

Table of contents : List of Illustrations vii List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xv Intr

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