The Golden Legend: Volume VII
The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 ENGLISHED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME SEVEN From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents Here follows the Life of S. Katherine, […]
The GOLDEN LEGEND: VOLUME VI
Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 TRANSLATED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents Here follows the Life of S. Edward, King and Confessor In old time the realm of England was […]
The Golden Legend: Volume V
The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 TRANSLATED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME FIVE From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents Here followeth the Life of S. Rocke […]
The Golden Legend: Volume IV
The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 TRANSLATED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME FOUR From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents Here follows the Life of S. Maturin. […]
The Golden Legend: Volume III
The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 ENGLISHED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME THREE From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents Here follows of S. Pauline the Widow S. […]
The Golden Legend: Volume II
Volume 2 The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 TRANSLATED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME TWO From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents The History of Joshua After […]
The Golden Legend: Volume I
|Volume 1 The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 ENGLISH TRANSLATION by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME ONE From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 Contents PROLOGUE AMONG the books […]
The Golden Legend – Main Index
|Historians interested in the “real lives” of individual saints value the earliest texts above all others. But for assessing the later cult of saints in Western Europe the Golden Legend Jacobus de Voragine, writing about 1260, achieved dominance in later western hagiographical literature – about 900 manuscripts of his Golden Legend survive. From 1470 […]