Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe / / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski; ed. by Timea Szell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate,
• MitwirkendeR: Berkeley Sherman, Gail,; Birge Vitz, Evelyn,; Brownlee, Kevin,; Carrasco, Magdalena,; Cazelles, Brigitte,; Coakley, John,; Damrosch, David,; Hahn, Cynthia,; Jankofsky, Klaus P.,; Kieckhefer, Richard,; Little, Lester K.,; Mcnamara, Joann,; Robertson, Elizabeth,; Uitti, Karl D.,; Vauchez, André,
• HerausgeberIn: Szell, Timea,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 24 halftones

This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages. Bringing together fourteen essays by contributors representing a number of disciplines, it illuminates issues including the place of sanctity in society, the role of gender in the representation of sainthood, and the use of hagiographic conventions in other genres.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- PART I. HAGIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY -- 1. Lay People's Sanctity in Western Europe: Evolution of a Pattern (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) -- 2. Sanctity and Experience in Pictorial Hagiography: Two Illustrated Lives of Saints from Romanesque France -- 3. Spiritual Sanctions in Wales -- 4. National Characteristics in the Portrayal of English Saints in the South English Legendary -- PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE -- 5. From the Oral to the Written in Medieval and Renaissance Saints' Lives -- 6. Martyrdom and the Female Voice: Saint Christine in the Cité des dames -- 7. Saints, Nuns, and Speech in the Canterbury Tales -- 8. Speaking without Tongues: The Martyr Romanus and Augustine's Theory of Language in Illustrations of Bern Burgerbibliothek Codex 264 -- 9. Non Alia Sed Aliter: The Hermeneutics of Gender in Bernard of Clairvaux -- PART III. SAINTLINESS AND GENDER -- 10. The Need to Give: Suffering and Female Sanctity in the Middle Ages -- 11. Friars as Confidants of Holy Women in Medieval Dominican Hagiography -- 12. Women Saints, the Vernacular, and History in Early Medieval France -- 13. The Corporeality of Female Sanctity in The Life of Saint Margaret -- 14. Holiness and the Culture of Devotion: Remarks on Some Late Medieval Male Saints -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index