附註:美國加州大學柏克萊分校Dunbar H. Ogden教授(賴聲川老師博士論文指導教授)2006年捐贈.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Martyrs of the early church -- 2. The desert fathers and mothers -- 3. Bishops, monks, and nuns -- 4. Royal saints -- 5. Pilgrimage -- 6. Relics -- 7. New directions -- 8. Hagiographic romances -- 9. Epilogue.
摘要:A collection remarkable both for its range and for its respect for the richness of the individual texts. Through it the reader will be able to trace the origin, the diffusion and the many layers of meaning of a central element of Christianity for a period of well over a millennium. We begin, with the martyrs, with vivid tales of public cruelty in the cities of the Greco-Roman world in its last days. We end, often with the same figures, transformed over time, so as to become part of the Christian "folklore" of all Western Europe. Gathered from the vernacular languages of Europe, as well as from Latin texts, this collection does justice to the many layers to which the cult of the saints penetrated, and to the constantly changing viewss of the human person implied in the idea of Christian sanctity. To read it is to re-live an entire era in the imaginative history of Christian Europe. [Back cover].
