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The Book of Sainte Foy
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Pamela Sheingorn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-03 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint's cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingor
Writing Faith
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Kathleen Ashley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"Writing Faith demonstrates that clusters of miracles form sign systems, and that it is those systems of meaning or representation that can be historically loca
The Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of Saints
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Kathleen Ashley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-28 - Publisher: Routledge

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Bringing together artifacts, texts, and practices within an interpretive framework that stresses the cultural work performed by saints, Kathleen Ashley presents
Little Saint
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Hannah Green
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07-03 - Publisher: Modern Library

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In the early 1970s, Hannah Green and her husband came upon a small village called Conques, curled like a conch shell in the mountains of south-central France. E
Treasure of Sainte Foy
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Macdonald Harris
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-08 - Publisher: Scribner

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Like Graham Greene and Mary McCarthy before him, MacDonald Harris has written a thriller. And like them, he brings to his story the alchemical talent of a first