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Imagining the sacred past hagiography and power in early Normandy
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Imagining the sacred past [electronic resource] : hagiography and power in early Normandy / Samantha Kahn Herrick.
ISBN
9780674273689 (electronic bk.)
0674273680 (electronic bk.)
0674024435
9780674024434
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : map, genealogical table.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 04, 2024
Series
Harvard historical studies ; 156
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-249) and index.
Contents
Map: Eleventh-Century Normandy xi
Genealogical Chart: Rulers of Normandy and Their Connections, 911-1087 xii
1 Placing the Texts in Time 13
2 Individual Appeal: Explaining the Interest in Taurinus, Vigor, and Nicasius 33
3 Imagining the Past of the Evrecin: The Vita Taurini 51
4 Reshaping History in the Bessin; The Vita Vigoris 74
5 Claiming the Heritage of the French Vexin: The Passio Nicasii 94
6 Broader Perspective: The Norman Vision of the Distant Past and Contemporary Hagiography 112
Appendix 1 Manuscripts of the Vita Taurini and Vita Vigoris 139
Appendix 2 Transmission of the Passio Nicasii 145.
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