Though the medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely considered as pious fiction by many. Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors as he explores sacred biographies in relation to the community for which they were written.
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Though the medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely considered as pious fiction by many. Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors as he explores sacred biographies in relation to the community for which they were written.
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