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In Search of Sacred Time: Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend by Jacques Le Goff (review)

For the past two decades, the Golden Legend composed by the Dominican prelate Jacobus de Voragine—as well as the genre of abridged legendaries (legendae novae)—have been a major subject of scientific research, inspiring extensive studies by scholars such as Barbara Fleith and Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, as well as editions, commentaries, and translations by Maggioni, Emore Paoli, and this reviewer. Following these books, the last major work by Le Goff, the doyen of medieval studies (who died in 2014)—humbly qualified by himself as an essay— investigates a key theme of his broad examination of medieval society: time as a defining factor of the Christian philosophy of life.