Flesh Made Word

Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination

Aviad Kleinberg

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

  • 2009 Bronze Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category

Introduction

1. Sanctity

2. The Beginnings

3. On the Way to Heaven: Perpetua's Passion

4. The Ascetics

5. Antony, the First Hermit

6. The Ascetic Pendulum

7. Paul, an Ascetic in Paradise

8. Suspended between Heaven and Earth: Simeon Stylites

9. Saints' Stories and the Rise of a Popular Literature

10. Francis of Assisi, a Joyful Ascetic

11. Fra Ginepro, the Holy Fool

12. The Golden Legend

Concluding Reflections

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Flesh Made Word
  • A photo of the author

Aviad Kleinberg is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University and the author of Prophets in Their Own Country: Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.