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10.4000/cei.2713

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10.4000/cei.2713

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‘Orientalism’ in the Legenda aurea de Jacques de Voragine

Abstract

This contribution aims to propose a categorisation of the Legenda aurea grounds on the basis of an adaptation of Edward Said’s ‘orientalist grid’. In particular, it can be seen that Dominican legend is characterised by attention to the East to a very low degree of criticism. The second part of the article illustrates some of the guiding categories identified and their possible genesis discussed: the East as a soil of evangelisation and pre-existing païle cults, the Eastern objects in Legenda aurea, the Bestiary, the East as a soil of adventures, war and pilgrimage, the sociocultural aspects of the East. As a result of this study, there are some instances of likely omission or erasure from the East on the part of the hagiograph.

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