The Vita Bedae and the Craft of Hagiography.
Bede was (and is) justly renowned for his scholarship and admired for his piety; an early cult, such as it was, proved abortive and he was never canonised. Nevertheless, he was subsequently the subject of a Vita which, in sharp contrast to his own autobiographical note, is pointedly hagiographical....
| Publicado en: | History Vol. 105; no. 367; pp. 567 - 588 |
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