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