Product Description: Examines the function of the countless saints - genuine and bogus, famous and obscure, ancient and modern - who feature in James Joyce's fiction. Apostolic zealots, mutilated virgins, Celtic wonderers, stigmatic friars and a hairy hermit all make their way through these pages. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description:  This book is an introduction to, and selected translations of, seventeen sung sermons of Romanos.  While R. J. Schork reviews Romanos's life and times, his emphasis is on the hymns themselves as inspired and inspirational pieces of religious poetry...read more