Brian Murdoch

Gebundenes Buch

Gregorius

An Incestuous Saint in Medieval Europe and Beyond

Beschreibung

The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond.This book traces the story from its English or French origins through its many variations from Iceland to Egypt and from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.

Autor

Brian Murdoch is Emeritus Professor of German at Stirling University, and has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford, where he delivered the Hulsean and the Speaker's lectures. He has also given the Waynflete lectures at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has published widely on medieval and renaissance religious (and also heroic) literature in German, English, the Celtic languages, and on a comparative basis, with handbooks on Old High German and on Cornish literature. He has been particularly concerned with the Bible and apocryphal writings, and especially the theme of Adam and Eve in vernacular literature, and in 2009 he published a study of the apocryphal Adam books. In the modern field he has written extensively on the literature of the world wars, notably on Erich Maria Remarque (a book on his novels appeared in 2006), and has published a number of translations from Latin and from medieval and modern German.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780199596409
• ISBN-10: 0199596409
• Artikelnr.: 35275381