In Search of Sacred Time: Jacobus de Voragine and the Golden Legend

by Jacques Le Goff

Book Overview

How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imagination

It is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691204543
• ISBN13: 9780691204543
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"