Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages / / Patrick J. Geary.
Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Reading
- 1. Saints, Scholars, and Society: The Elusive Goal
- 2. The Uses of Archaeological Sources for Religious and Cultural History
- Representing
- 3. Germanic Tradition and Royal Ideology in the Ninth Century: The Visio Karoli Magni
- 4. Exchange and Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Early Medieval Society
- Negotiating
- 5. Humiliation of Saints
- 6. Coercion of Saints in Medieval Religious Practice
- 7. Living with Conflicts in Stateless France: A Typology of Conflict Management Mechanisms, 1050-1200
- Reproducing
- 8. The Saint and the Shrine: The Pilgrim's Goal in the Middle Ages
- 9. The Ninth-Century Relic Trade-A Response to Popular Piety?
- 10. Sacred Commodities: The Circulation of Medieval Relics
- Living
- 11. Saint Helen of Athyra and the Cathedral of Troyes in the Thirteenth Century
- 12. The Magi and Milan
- Index of Published Sources
- General Index