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Afterlives of the Saints

Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature [Hardback]

by Julia Reinhard Lupton

    • Author

      Julia Reinhard Lupton

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      December 1996

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      This 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. The central texts analyzed Boccaccio s Decameron, Vasari s Lives of the Artists, and Shakespeare s Measure for Measure and The Winter s Tale all manifest key moments and aspects in the creation of a Renaissance canon for the post-Renaissance world. The epochal significance of these works, saturated in religious allusions as well as scenes of profane life and classical art, is shown to rest in neither the normative piety nor the subversive heresy of any of these writers, but rather in their crafting of myths of modernity precisely out of the religious material that formed such an important part of their daily vocabularies.

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      • Author

        Julia Reinhard Lupton

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Stanford University Press

      • Published

        December 1996

      • Weight

        536g

      • Page Count

        304

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9780804726436

      • ISBN-10

        0804726434

      • Eden Code

        1159569

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      • Author/Creator: Julia Reinhard Lupton

      • ISBN: 9780804726436

      • Publisher: Stanford University Press

      • Release Date: December 1996

      • Weight: 536g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 1159569


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