Sainted Women of the Dark Ages by McNamara, Jo Ann - 1992-03-27

Durham and London: Duke University Press Books, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/Wraps. Fist Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine. 340pp inc. textual footnotes, Bibliographical References, Index; illustrated in family trees.

Duke University Press, 1992. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Duke University Press, 1992. Paperback. Ex-Library with stamps on all edges of text and ffep. Wear on upper and lower edges.

Paperback. Very Good.

Duke University Press Books, 1992-03-27. paperback. Used: Good.

Duke University Press, December 1992. Paper Back. New. As Jo Ann McNamara points out in the introduction, 'It is rare for any age to preserve so large a group of sources dedicated to women's achievements and rarer still for a period so impoverished in sources of any kind.' Yet difficulties remain when it comes to the validity of early French hagiography. Hagiographers from following generations were accused of forging the stories to authenticate their own authority or highlighting similarities between the saints' lives and pagan legend. Fortunately, the Belgian Jesuit Hippolyte Delehaye validated the historical claims of many of these saints by applying sound archaeological and documentary scholarship to the texts. Originally written in Latin by contemporaries (several of whom knew the saints personally), these biographies portray the lives of eighteen Frankish women from the sixth and seventh centuries and represent a model of sanctity unique to that time. Three were queens. Several… Read More

Duke Univ Pr, 1992. Paperback. New. 369 pages. 9.25x5.75x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Presents lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. This title covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire and the conversion of the invading Franks to the rise of Charlemagne's family.

Duke Univ Pr, 1992. Paperback. New. 369 pages. 9.25x5.75x1.00 inches.

Duke University Press Books, 1992-03-27. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!