Church and Belief in the Middle Ages : : Popes, Saints, and Crusaders / / Kirsi Salonen, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016
• TeilnehmendeR: Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari,; Salonen, Kirsi,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 6 line drawings

The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally they ended up being sanctified. Yet current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- In the Name of Saints Peter and Paul / Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari / Salonen, Kirsi / Jensen, Kurt Villads -- I. Papal Administration -- The Cost of Grace / Schmugge, Ludwig -- Career Prospects of Minor Curialists in the Fifteenth Century / Hanska, Jussi -- A Criminal Trial at the Court of the Chamber Auditor / Ingesman, Per -- II. Saints and Miracles -- The Power of the Saints and the Authority of the Popes / Klaniczay, Gábor -- Velut Alter Alexius / Golinelli, Paolo -- Judicium Medicine and Judicium Sanctitatis / Lett, Didier -- Heavenly Healing or Failure of Faith? / Kuuliala, Jenni -- III. Crusades and Conversion -- Servi Beatae Marie Virginis / Kivimäe, Jüri -- Holy War - Holy Wrath! / Jensen, Kurt Villads -- The Swedish Expeditions ('Crusades') Towards Finland Reconsidered / Olesen, Jens E. -- Index