Promoting the Saints : : Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period / / ed. by Marcell Sebők, Ottó Gecser, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Katalin Szende.

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• MitwirkendeR: Andrić, Stanko,; Bak, János M.,; Bokody, Péter,; Csepregi, Ildikó,; Deák Op, Viktória Hedvig,; Falvay, Dávid,; Galamb, György,; Gaşpar, Cristian,; Geary, Patrick,; Gecser, Ottó,; Goff, Jacques Le,; Jaritz, Gerhard,; Kuzmová, Stanislava,; Laszlovszky, József,; Láng, Benedek,; Marosi, Ernő,; Miladinov, Marina,; Mutlová, Petra,; Nagy, Balázs,; Nagy, Emőke,; Szakács, Béla Zsolt,; Sághy, Marianne,; Vauchez, André,
• HerausgeberIn: Gecser, Ottó,; Laszlovszky, József,; Nagy, Balázs,; Sebők, Marcell,; Szende, Katalin,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: CEU Medievalia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors—from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history—represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography -- Theological Self-Definition in Byzantine Miraculous Healing -- (Re)claiming Adalbert. Patristic Quotations and Their Function in Canaparius’ Vita S. Adalberti -- “Pull you Sons of Whores!” Linguistic Register and Reform in the Legend of St. Clement -- Hagiography and Chronicles -- Hagiography and Biography. The Case of St. Francis of Assisi -- Idolatry or Power. St. Francis in Front of the Sultan -- Blessed John the French, The First Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his Miracles -- Fama sanctitatis and the Emergence of St. Margaret’s Cult in the Rural Countryside. The Canonization Process and Social Mobility in Thirteenth-Century Hungary -- The Techniques of a Hagiographer. The Two Legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary -- St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian Vernacular Literature. Vitae, Miracles, Revelations, and the Meditations on the Life of Crist -- Division and Reintegration of the Body of St. Stanislaus. A Political Analogy in Sermons? -- Saints, Names, and Identities. The Case of Charles IV of Luxemburg -- Saints at Home and Abroad. Some Observations on the Creation of Iconographic Types in Hungary in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- Palatine Lackfi and His Saints. Frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely -- Late Medieval Saints and the Visual Representation of Rural Space -- Sainthood in the Propaganda of Mendicant Orders. The Case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches -- Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death (1348–ca. 1500) -- “Had She Born Ten Daughters, She Would Have Named Them All Mary because of the Kindness of the First Mary”. St. Anne in the Sermons of Two Late Medieval Hungarian Preachers -- The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images -- Madonna of Loreto as a Target of Reformation Critique. Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger -- Saint Christopher. The Patron of Treasure Hunters -- Contributors -- Index