The golden legend : readings on the saints / Jacobus de Voragine ; translated by William Granger Ryan with an introduction by Eamon Duffy.

"Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purp...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298 (Author)
Other Authors:	Ryan, William Granger, 1905-1996 (Translator)
Other title:	Legenda aurea. English
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English Latin
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Edition:	2012 edition.
Subjects:	Christian saints > Biography. Christian saints. Biographies.