Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe / / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski; ed. by Timea Szell.
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 sancti...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 24 halftones |
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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