Leah Shopkow

The Saint and the Count

A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian

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Produktbeschreibung

In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781487525866
• ISBN-10: 1487525869
• Artikelnr.: 60600682

Autorenporträt

Leah Shopkow is a professor of history at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: "We Should Not Pass Over in Silence"
1. "In the Province of Bayeux": St. Vitalis in the Historical and
Hagiographic Record
2. "Strive to rise swiftly from the dust": The Author Stephen of Fougères
3. "Men who built the Holy Church": Hagiography and Genre
4. "These are not our inventions": Miracles and Doubt
5. "They tried to kill him": Hagiography and the Problem of Violence
Afterword: "So that my words may not bore the reader"
Appendix 1: The Life of St. Vitalis
Appendix 2: The Life of St. Firmat
Glossary of Terms and Concepts
Notes
Bibliography
Index