Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature

by Julia Lupton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726434
• ISBN13: 9780804726436
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"