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Golden Legend
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Golden Legend

Medieval collection of nearly 200 saints' lives compiled c. 1265 by Dominican friar Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1230–98), who was for some years archbishop of Genoa. The collection is in 5 sections and contains 182 chapters (or 177 according to other enumerations). It remained the most popular book of legend into the 16th century and over 1,000 manuscript editions survive. An English translation was published 1948.



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This too often neglected crucial feature of Lutheran spirituality can be traced back to the reformer's project of publishing (with the help of Major and Spalatin) the expurgated editions (1544) of Vitae patrum and of the Legenda aurea.
Oliver K. Olson. Matthias Flacius and the Survival of Luther's Reform by Backus, Irena / Renaissance Quarterly
Apart from the sheer charm of the stories (along with a whole panoply of miracles that even Jacobus had trouble narrating with a straight face), there is a simple scholarly answer to the question: The Legenda Aurea was an encyclopedic sourcebook which subsequent authors and artists drew upon for inspiration and iconographical details as they chronicled/depicted the lives of the saints.
Jacobus de Voragine: The Golden Legend, 2 vols by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
Compare her treatment to that typically received by the female heretics/martyrs in Legenda Aurea, anti-Lollard and other anti-heresy tracts, and Foxe's Acts and Monuments.
Translating (Anne) Askew: The Textual Remains of a Sixteenth-Century ... by KEMP, THERESA D. / Renaissance Quarterly
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