Death, Sanctity, and the Cross
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Death, Sanctity, and the Cross

Crucified Saints in Image and Text

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eBook - PDF

Death, Sanctity, and the Cross

Crucified Saints in Image and Text

About this book

A focus on crucified saints (like Christ in their death, unlike in its significance) has enabled this volume's contributors to explore varied aspects of martyrdom, the ascription of sanctity, purification from sins, and the significance of multiple forms of crucifixion – both literal and metaphorical – from early Christianity to the present day, including examinations of the role of crucifixion in Islamic and secular settings, in its representation in sacred and non-Christian fiction, and in art.Together these papers explore how the centrality of the crucifix that we sometimes take for granted took longer in affirming itself and how crucified saints played a significant role in mediating and establishing the rationale for this presence and guiding the understanding of the process of redemption.

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Yes, you can access Death, Sanctity, and the Cross by Autori Vari, Barbara Crostini,Anthony John Lappin, Barbara Crostini, Anthony John Lappin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & History of Religion. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Barbara Crostini and Anthony John Lappin, Background and Chapter Summary
  7. Barbara Crostini, Assembling Crucified Saints: From Gnostic Doubles to Affirmations of the Incarnation
  8. Fabrizio Petorella, Debating about the Cross: The Rhetoric of Crucifixion in the Passio Sancti Andreae Apostoli (BHL 428)
  9. Marco Papasidero, The Torture of the Cross and the Crucifixion in Latin Hagiography from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
  10. Nunzio Bianchi, Cross and Crucifixion in Iamblichus’ Novel
  11. Gianni Bergamaschi, “Christus eam thalamo crucis dotavit”: Julia, the Crucified Saint
  12. Adriano Duque, Modelling Crucifixion from Peter of Capitoliasto FurtÌŁĆ«n ibn MuhÌŁammad (d. 939 CE)
  13. Steffen Hope, Symbolic Crucifixion and Royal Sainthood: Two Examples from Benedictine Saints’ Lives (c. 985-c. 1120)
  14. Andrew M. Beresford, Crucifixion in the Legend of Saint Bartholomew
  15. Corinna Tania Gallori, “Our Way of Life”: The Crucifixion of the Regular Clergy and Its Tools
  16. Marcos Nieto Jiménez, Wilgefortis as a Portuguese Ambassador: How Portugal Took Hold of the Spanish Liberata
  17. Pablo JesĂșs Lorite Cruz, Saint Dismas: The Good Thief in Holy Week Processions
  18. Irina BrÀndén, Vita Icons of Saint Paraskeva: Allusions to the Crucifixion in the Torture Scenes of the Saint
  19. Felipe E. Rojas, “MĂĄs a Cristo has de imitar”: Francisquito’s Queer Role in Cervantes’ Los baños de Argel
  20. Margherita Belli, The Martyrdom of Agnes Takeda and Companions
  21. Carlo Pelliccia, Italian Hagiographic Literature on the Twenty-SixMartyrs of Japan (17th-19th Centuries)
  22. Anthony John Lappin, Re-framing the Crucifixion: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry and the Cross
  23. Contributors