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Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228-1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260-67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints' lives. One indication of its popularity is the fact that so many manuscript copies of the work have survived-more than one thousand according to some estimates. Despite the enduring influence of The Golden Legend, Jacopo remains an elusive figure because he left behind so little information about himself. In The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine, Steven A. Epstein sets out to remedy this situation through a careful study of all Jacopo's works, including many hundreds of sermons and his innovative chronicle of Genoese history. In Epstein's sure hands, Jacopo emerges as one of the most active and talented minds of his day. Indeed, Epstein argues that one needs to read all of Jacopo's books, in a Genoese context, in order to understand the original scope of his thinking, which greatly influenced the ways generations of people across Europe experienced their Christianity. The rich sources for Jacopo's sermons, saints' lives, and history illuminate the traditions that inspired him and shaped his imaginative and artistic powers. Jacopo was also one of the inventors of social history, and his writings reveal complex and new perspectives on family life as well as the histories of gay people, slaves, Jews, and the medieval economy. Filled with impressive insights into the intellectual life of the thirteenth century, The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine will be of interest to a wide range of medieval scholars and students of religious history, church history, and hagiography as well as intellectual history and Italian history.

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Cornell University Press

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14 décembre 2015

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9781501703614

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English

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3 Mo

1500 My Last Duchess History of Europe History of religions History of Christianity Italy Christian Church Histoire Christianity

THE TALENTS OF JACOPO DA VARAGINE

A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe

Steven A. Epstein

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Epstein, Steven, 1952– author The talents of Jacopo da Varagine : a Genoese mind in medieval Europe / Steven A. Epstein. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9781501700507 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298. 2. Catholic Church—Italy—Bishops—Biography. I. Title. BX4705.J28E67 2016 282.092—dc23 [B] 2015036028

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Not all one’s time should be devoted to public issues or immersed in politi cal questions, because it is not wise to apply oneself to transitory things but to do on this earth what will gain fruits in heaven. Jacopo da Varagine,Chronicle of the City of Genoa

For we preach not ourselves . . .

2 Corinthians 4:5

. . . in sources that James of Genoa compiled into a volume almost as fasci nating as the Fioretti of Saint Francis. Henry Adams,Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

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List of Abbreviations ix

Prologue1 The Preacher2 Holy Days3 Saintly People4 Genoa’s Past5 Genoa’s Own HistorianEpilogue

Select Bibliography 277 Acknowledgments 287 General Index 289 Index of Scripture 299

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