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La légende dorée
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ISBN: 2070114171 9782070114177 Year: 2004 Volume: 504 Publisher: Paris : Gallimard,

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La Légende dorée fut l'ouvrage le plus lu et le plus diffusé au Moyen Âge, juste après la Bible (on en connaît 1000 exemplaires manuscrits conservés, contre 150 exemplaires seulement pour le fameux Livre du Graal). L'ouvrage doit d'ailleurs son titre actuel à son succès, les tranches dorées étant précisément réservées aux livres les plus importants de l'époque. Découpée en 178 chapitres, cette «légende des saints» (son titre originel) constitue en fait une encyclopédie de la vie chrétienne - le terme «légende» devant être compris comme «ce qui doit être lu» (par les prédicateurs, dans les écoles ou pendant les repas dans les monastères). Néanmoins, le merveilleux s'y fait très présent, selon la tradition des apocryphes chrétiens, friands de fantastique et de miraculeux. Outre les vies des saints (le sanctoral), l'ouvrage s'attache à expliciter le sens des grandes fêtes chrétiennes (le temporal). Cette édition de la Pléiade constitue la première traduction intégrale en français, à partir d'un manuscrit latin authentique et complet. Elle est illustrée de plus de 150 bois gravés tirés d'éditions des XVe et XVIe siècles, et complétée par un index des noms et un index des notions.


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Jacopo da Varagine's chronicle of the city of Genoa
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ISBN: 9780719099403 0719099404 9781526164391 Year: 2020 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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"This book provides the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by Jacopo da Varagine, a thirteenth-century Dominican best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Toward the end of a busy career as a writer and administrator, Jacopo became archbishop of Genoa, one of the most important mercantile centres in the Mediterranean. The Chronicle was compiled in the course of his tenure (1292-98). It presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos, and Creation, mixing scholarly research about the city's origins with didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life, as well as personal accounts of Jacopo's experience as archbishop. While hundreds of such chronicles were written in the cities of Italy during the Middle Ages, full translations are rare in English, and the majority focus on better-known cities such as Florence and Venice. Accompanied by an extensive introduction that places Jacopo and his work in a historical and literary context, this full-text translation illustrates the variety of methodologies employed in medieval historiography, provides a unique perspective on this dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, and broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life. It meets a growing need for translations of key sources that are directly usable in students' work, while also serving as an introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, medieval historical writing. Dominican composition, and the author better known as Jacobus de Voragine." --Back cover.


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The talents of Jacopo da Varagine : a Genoese mind in Medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9781501700507 1501700502 9781501703614 1501703617 1501703609 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press,

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Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228-1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260-67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints' lives. One indication of its popularity is the fact that so many manuscript copies of the work have survived-more than one thousand according to some estimates. Despite the enduring influence of The Golden Legend, Jacopo remains an elusive figure because he left behind so little information about himself. In The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine, Steven A. Epstein sets out to remedy this situation through a careful study of all Jacopo's works, including many hundreds of sermons and his innovative chronicle of Genoese history. In Epstein's sure hands, Jacopo emerges as one of the most active and talented minds of his day. Indeed, Epstein argues that one needs to read all of Jacopo's books, in a Genoese context, in order to understand the original scope of his thinking, which greatly influenced the ways generations of people across Europe experienced their Christianity. The rich sources for Jacopo's sermons, saints' lives, and history illuminate the traditions that inspired him and shaped his imaginative and artistic powers. Jacopo was also one of the inventors of social history, and his writings reveal complex and new perspectives on family life as well as the histories of gay people, slaves, Jews, and the medieval economy. Filled with impressive insights into the intellectual life of the thirteenth century, The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine will be of interest to a wide range of medieval scholars and students of religious history, church history, and hagiography as well as intellectual history and Italian history.

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Jacobus, --- Catholic Church --- Bishops --- Biography & Autobiography. --- Religious Studies. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- De Voragine, Jacobus, --- Giacomo, --- Iacobo, --- Iacobus, --- Iacopo, --- Jacobo, --- Jacobus de Varagine --- Jacopo, --- Jacques, --- Jakub, --- James, --- Santiago, --- Varagine, Giacomo da, --- Varagine, Iacopo da, --- Varagine, Jacobus de, --- Varazze, Giacomo da, --- Varazze, Iacopo da, --- Varazze, Jacopo da, --- Varazze, Santiago de, --- Viraggio, Jacopo di, --- Voragine, Giacomo da, --- Voragine, Iacobo di, --- Voragine, Jacobus de, --- Voragine, Jacopo da, --- Voragine, Jacques de, --- Voragine, Jakub de, --- Vorágine, Santiago de la, --- Saints --- Christian saints --- Sermons --- דרשות --- مواعظ --- קדושים נוצריים --- קדושים --- History and criticism --- היסטוריה וביקורת --- تاريخ ونقد --- יקובוס דה ורגינה --- Voragine, --- Varazze, Giacomo Da --- Varagine, Jacobus de --- וורגינה, יקובוס דה --- ורגינה, יקובוס דה --- יקובוס דה וורגינה --- יעקב דה ורגינה --- יעקובוס דה ורגינה --- Dominicans --- הכנסייה הקתולית --- בישופים --- Genoa (Italy) --- ג'נואה (איטליה) --- Church history --- היסטוריה של הכנסיה --- Prediger-Orden --- Preaching Friars --- Dominican Fathers --- Ordre des Precheurs --- Orden de S. Domingos --- Ordo Praedicatorum --- Frati Predicatori --- Order of Preachers --- Order of St. Dominic --- Ordre des Frères Precheurs --- Friars Preachers --- Dominicos --- Domenicani --- Padres Domenicos --- Ordre de Saint Dominique --- Dominikaner --- Predicatores --- Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum --- Black Friars --- Dominikanie --- Precheurs --- Orden de Predicadores --- Dominicains --- History --- Iacobus de Voragine --- Jacobus, - de Voragine, - approximately 1229-1298 --- Catholic Church - Italy - Bishops - Biography

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