Lupton, Julia Reinhard
Afterlives of the Saints

Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature.

The book examines the ways in which the literary genre of hagiography and the hermeneutical paradigm of Biblical typology together entered into the construction of 'the Renaissance' as a canon and period. It is not about saints' lives in themselves, as either literary or historical phenomena, but instead addresses the structural effects of hagiography in the secular literature of the Renaissance. XXXII,269 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (Stanford University Press 1996) leichte Gebrauchsspuren, berieben, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz/minor traces of use, rubbed, pencil writing on endpaper