| Autor: |
Ring, Morgan, Ditchfield, Simon, Methuen, Charlotte, Spicer, Andrew |
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Studies in Church History; June 2017, Vol. 53 Issue: 1 p118-131, 14p |
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To its admirers, the Legenda aureais a powerful expression of medieval belief. To the evangelical pamphleteers of early modern England, it was a symbol of all the failings of unreformed religion. For historians, it is a convenient shorthand for popular hagiography before the Reformation. These readings, however, understate the Legenda'soften ambiguous place in early modern devotional life. This article seeks to complicate the Legenda'shistory in late medieval and early modern England. It argues that the concept and the act of translation rendered Jacobus's text more complex than the historiographical shorthand allows. Translation contributed to the Legenda'spower as a devotional work, was a means by which it found its use, impact and wide audience, and was central to how reformers remembered both the text itself and its author. The translated Legendawas not the exception to the narrative of the long Reformation, but an emblem of it. |
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