Promoting the Saints
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Promoting the Saints

Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period

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  2. English
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Promoting the Saints

Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period

About this book

The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors—from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history—represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.

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Yes, you can access Promoting the Saints by Ottó Gecser, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők, Katalin Szende in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Religious Fundamentalism & Cults. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface by Jacques Le Goff
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography
  9. Theological Self-Definition in Byzantine Miraculous Healing
  10. (Re)claiming Adalbert: Patristic Quotations and Their Function in Canaparius’ Vita S. Adalberti
  11. “Pull you Sons of Whores!” Linguistic Register and Reform in the Legend of St. Clement
  12. Hagiography and Chronicles
  13. Hagiography and Biography: The Case of St. Francis of Assisi
  14. Idolatry or Power: St. Francis in Front of the Sultan
  15. Blessed John the French, the First Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his Miracles
  16. Fama sanctitatis and the Emergence of St. Margaret’s Cult in the Rural Countryside
  17. The Techniques of a Hagiographer: The Two Legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary
  18. St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian Vernacular Literature. Vitae, Miracles, Revelations and the Meditationson the Life of Christ
  19. Division and Reintegration of the body of St. Stanislaus: A Political Analogy in Sermons?
  20. Saints, Names, and Identities: The Case of Charles IV of Luxemburg
  21. Saints at Home and Abroad: Some Observations on the Creation of Iconographic Types in Hungary of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
  22. Palatine Lackfi and his Saints: Frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely
  23. Late Medieval Saints and the Visual Representation of Rural Space
  24. Sainthood in the Propaganda of Mendicant Orders: The Case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches
  25. Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death (1348–ca. 1500)
  26. “Had She Born Ten Daughters, She would have Named them All Mary Because of the Kindness of the First Mary.” St. Anne in the Sermons of Two Late Medieval HungarianPreachers
  27. The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images
  28. Madonna of Loreto as a Target of Reformation Critique: Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger
  29. Saint Christopher, the Patron of Treasure-Hunters
  30. List of Contributors
  31. Index