{"product_id":"the-golden-legend-volume-ii-9780691001548","title":"The Golden Legend Volume II","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDepicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories - some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking - \"The Golden Legend\" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. This title presents an English translation of the complete text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[The Golden Legend] came to serve as the literary equivalent of wall-paintings and stained glass... For the translation of the work in its entirety into English we have had to wait 700 years for the energy and learning of a distinguished American academic, William Granger Ryan.\"--Gerard Irvine, The Times Literary Supplement \"Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it inside-out... [F]or the rest of us it remains a treasure-house of European culture, crammed full of the things which everyone, once upon a time, used to know.\"--Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph \"A labor of love, as well as a product of great erudition. The translation is a complete, thoughtful, and judicious one.\"--Thomas Head, The Catholic Historical Review \"An unequaled source book for the study of the art and literature of the high Middle Ages... [de Voragine] showed himself to be a narrative artist of the first rank, and in Ryan's fine English version we have a splendid volume that can take its place somewhere between Butler's Lives of the Saints and Aesop's Fables.\"--George Sim Johnston, The New Criterion \"To the labor of Father Ryan, whose stylish translation now affords us the means [to eye Voragine's purpose and method], we owe an enormous debt.\"--Brian Masters, Literary Review","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403665809751,"sku":"9780691001548","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-golden-legend-volume-ii-9780691001548","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}