Le Dossier Saint Leger [French]

By: Collectif

English summary: Composed shortly after his death, the first two Passions of Leger d'Autun offer a set of texts for the least documented decades of the Merovingian period. These works mark a new direction of Western hagiography by presenting the removal of an influential bishop as an authentic martyr. For his biographers, Leger was nevertheless a problematic figure and his fall is known from the testimony of his complaisant relatives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2251446508
• ISBN13: 9782251446509
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"