Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Heffernan, Thomas J.
Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages
- Published
- New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Physical Description
- 333 pp.
- Description
- Using a new critical method, Heffernan examines the characteristics of the saint's life, sacred biography as historical narrative, important works and collections in the tradition, medieval attitudes toward virginity and chastity,rhetoric and the oral tradition, and the frequency of sexual assault on female saints, as found in the tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.