{"product_id":"les-saints-successeurs-des-dieux-i-lorigine-du-culte-des-saints-ii-les-sources-des-legendes-hagiographiques-iii-la-mythologie-des-noms-propres","title":"Les Saints Successeurs des Dieux. I. L'origine Du Culte Des Saints. II. Les Sources Des Légendes Hagiographiques. IIi. la Mythologie Des Noms Propres","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis: E. Nourry, 1907. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Large octavo in quarter leather and green \u0026amp; black marbled boards; 416 pages illustrations 23 cm; copious bibliographical footnotes.  Binding in general condition; both boards all but detached; text block clean and tight. Reading or bindery copy. Pages a bit browned and brittle at edges. . Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn French. Uncommon.  nEssais de mythologie chrétienne [series]. Pseudonymous study by the Parisian bookseller, publisher and folklorist Émile Nourry (1870–1935), who wrote as P. Saintyves and issued the work in 1907 from his own house on the Left Bank, Émile Nourry. Subtitled “essais de mythologie chrétienne,” it argues that the Christian cult of martyrs and saints is of pagan origin, a continuation of the hero cults and relic veneration of Greco-Roman antiquity. A substantial introduction takes as its starting point the liturgical-origins work of the Benedictine Dom Fernand Cabrol. It is followed by three parts on the origins of the cult of saints, the sources of hagiographic legend, and the “mythology of proper names,” in which saints arise from place names, epithets or misread metaphors. Among its cases are the cephalophores, martyrs who carry their own severed heads, and the Slavic custom of personifying the days of the week as saints. Published at the height of the Modernist crisis in French Catholicism, the book was received abroad as rigorous comparative religion. The Spectator judged its central thesis effectively unanswerable, and a Flemish reviewer, unable to identify the author, assumed he was a French priest hiding behind a pen name to escape ecclesiastical intolerance. It is an early landmark of French religious folklore studies. Nourry, a student of Durkheim, went on to preside over the Société du folklore français, to direct the Revue du folklore français and the Revue anthropologique, and to pursue the same comparative method in his studies of virgin births, relics and the folk sources of Perrault’s tales.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saintyves, P. (pseud. Emile Nourry)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50833823039746,"sku":"106931","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/106931_ba894f5f-e394-4724-ad9c-328caea2d2a3.jpg?v=1792626789","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/les-saints-successeurs-des-dieux-i-lorigine-du-culte-des-saints-ii-les-sources-des-legendes-hagiographiques-iii-la-mythologie-des-noms-propres","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}