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Possible Lives : Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy by Alison Knowles Frazier (2005, Hardcover)
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Drawn from a newly constructed catalog of primary sources in manuscript and print, the cases in this book range from the lure of martyrdom as the West confronted Islam to the use of saints'lives in local politics and the rhetorician's classroom.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231129769
ISBN-139780231129763
eBay Product ID (ePID)30761794
Product Key Features
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePossible Lives : Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Publication Year2005
SubjectChristianity / Saints & Sainthood, Europe / Italy, Europe / Renaissance, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, History
AuthorAlison Knowles Frazier
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight36.8 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2004-050215
Reviews"This monumental work of scholarship and labor of love succeeds admirably in rescuing humanist hagiography from undeserved obscurity." -- Daniel Bornstein, Renaissance Quarterly, This monumental work of scholarship and labor of love succeeds admirably in rescuing humanist hagiography from undeserved obscurity.
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal235/.2/094509024
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Authors, Saints and Texts A Renaissance of Martyrs The Last Medieval Legendary The Teacher's Saints The Spectacle of a Woman's Devotion The Saint as Author Conclusion
SynopsisThe lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. This study examines how humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments., Possible Lives uses the saints'lives written by humanists of the Italian Renaissance to explore the intertwining of classical and religious cultures on the eve of the European Reformation. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. During the century before the Reformation, these narratives of impossible goodness fell into the hands of classicizing intellectuals known as humanists. This study examines how the humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments. Drawn from a newly constructed catalog of primary sources in manuscript and print, the cases in this book range from the lure of martyrdom as the West confronted Islam to the use of saints'lives in local politics and the rhetorician's classroom. Frazier discusses the writers'perceptions of historical sanctity, the commanding place of the mendicant friars, and one unique account of a contemporary holy woman. Possible Lives shows that the classical Renaissance was also a saintly Renaissance, as humanists deployed their rhetorical and philological skills to "renew the persuasive force of Christian virtue" and "save the cult of the saints." Combining quantitative and anecdotal approaches in a highly readable series of case studies, Frazier reveals the contextual richness of this little-known and unexpectedly large body of Latin hagiography.
LC Classification NumberBX4662.F74 2004
