The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints

Jacobus de Voragine

Princeton University Press, Apr 9, 1995 - Religion - 416 pages

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generally.

About the author

William Granger Ryan, a priest of the diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, is President Emeritus of Seton Hill College and a research scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, Yale University. This new translation of The Golden Legend (Ryan translated portions of the work in a volume published in 1941) is the first complete rendering of the Graesse edition in English.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Golden Legend, Volume I: Readings on the Saints
• Author: Jacobus de Voragine
• Translated by: William Granger Ryan
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0691001537, 9780691001531
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Catholic