Meanings (ES + gloss)
hagiografía
The study of saints and the documentation of their lives.
Jacques LeGoff remarks, 'Hagiography tells us much about the mental infrastructure [of the middle ages]: the interpenetration between the tangible world and the supernatural world,…
The second half of the eleventh century saw a notable surge of interest in hagiography throughout England, which meant that many of the Anglo-Saxon saints of earlier eras were furn…
hagiografía
A biography of a saint.
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