It takes the average reader 9 hours and 12 minutes to read Possible Lives by Alison Knowles Frazier
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Possible Lives uses the saints'lives written by humanists of the Italian Renaissance to explore the intertwining of classical and religious cultures on the eve of the European Reformation. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. During the century before the Reformation, these narratives of impossible goodness fell into the hands of classicizing intellectuals known as humanists. This study examines how the humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons...
Possible Lives by Alison Knowles Frazier is 544 pages long, and a total of 138,176 words.
This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 169% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 35 minutes to read Possible Lives aloud.
Possible Lives is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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