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

Description

It is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled for clerical use in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a best seller. This title deals with this book.

Jacques Le Goff is a world-renowned historian of the Middle Ages. His books include "Medieval Civilization, 400-1500", "The Birth of Europe", "The Medieval Imagination", "Money and the Middle Ages", "The Birth of Purgatory", "Saint Francis of Assisi", and "Intellectuals in the Middle Ages".

Praise for the French edition:"We too often forget that Christianity is not merely a belief or value system, but a conception of time sanctified by the coming of Christ?. To understand this, there is nothing better than reading this new book by Jacques Le Goff."--Paul Francois Paoli, Le Figaro Litteraire Praise for the French edition:"Astonishing erudition and familiarity... With Jacques Le Goff there is one thing that we are sure to not waste. Our time."--Laurent Lemire, Le Nouvel Observateur