Saints and Their Communities: Miracle Stories in Twelfth-Century England

by Simon Yarrow

Saints and their Communities offers a new approach to the study of lay religion as evidenced in collections of miracle narratives in twelfth-century England. There are a number of problems associated with the interpretation of this hagiographical genre and an extended introduction discusses these. The first issue is the tendency to read these narratives as transparent accounts of lay religion as if it were something susceptible to static, 'ethnographic'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019928363X
• ISBN13: 9780199283637
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"