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The Golden Legendis one of the central texts of the Middle Ages, a superb summary of saints' lives and religious festivals which decisively influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass. This selection of over 70 biographies ranges from the first Apostles and Roman martyrs to near-contemporaries like St Dominic, St Francis of Assisi and St Elizabeth of Hungary. Jacobus's book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand medieval imagery, art and thought- this fine new translation captures both its vigour and variety. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But, oddly enough, as I have read my way through all 71 of the saints' lives included in this edition, I haven't really found myself thinking back to specific paintings or stained glass portraits, at all. It's quite possibly true that I was simply blind to a lot of visual details, having not had the background traditions at my disposal that would cause me to take notice of specific references. So perhaps the next thing I need to do, if I want to start making some linkages, is look at some big compendia of Gothic and Renaissance art while keeping this text open in one hand.
What I did find very striking was the intensity of the violence perpetrated on the martyrs in some of these accounts. So much commentary has already been devoted to the extreme sado-masochism that seems to run through martyrological narrative but there really is nothing like reading one source text after another to get the full effect of the gougings, burnings, pourings of hot oil and coals, amputations, and so forth. And indeed there is some dark amusement to be found in the way that the various enemies of the faith try all of these tortures to no effect on the willing Christians, only eventually to find the only method of dispatch that seems to have been reliable—beheading.
Reading these narratives really does open a window in a very strange worldview—the benefit was not it was not what I thought it would be, but I'm glad I took the time to read them. ( )