The Making and Unmaking of a Saint : : Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac / / Mathew Kuefler.
A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early eleventh centuries, depicted the saint as a warrior who...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 34 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on names
- Maps 1 and 2
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Prolegomenon on the Dating and Authorship of the Writings about Gerald of Aurillac
- Chapter 2. The First Saint Gerald
- Chapter 3. The Second Saint Gerald
- Chapter 4. Saint Gerald and the Swell of History
- Chapter 5. Saint Gerald and the Ebb of History
- Chapter 6. The Modern Cult of Saint Gerald
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Translation of the Vita sancti Geraldi brevior
- Appendix 2. The Manuscripts of the Vita Geraldi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments