From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany by Colomino, Salvatore

From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780916379681)

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From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany by Colomino, Salvatore

From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany

$57.50
From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany by Colomino, Salvatore

From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany

$57.50
Format: Hardcover
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This monograph examines a fifteenth-century German prose redaction of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend. Through a comparison with contemporary versions of the story, the text edited here is shown to be an original contribution to the corpus of fifteenth-century hagiographic literature. A discussion of innovations in the prose Barlaam and Josaphat text further emphasizes differences from earlier poetic versions of the legend. Through an expansion of liturgical references and corresponding deletion of any secular commentary, the prose reviser has effectively adapted his material to a fifteenth-century clerical audience.

Author: Salvatore Colomino
ISBN-10: 091637968X
ISBN-13: 9780916379681
Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2015
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

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