Great immortality : : studies on European cultural sainthood / / edited by Marijan Dović, Jón Karl Helgason.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dović, Marijan,; Jón Karl Helgason, 1965-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: National Cultivation of Culture 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Acknowledgements --; Illustrations --; Notes on Contributors --; From a Monument in Ljubljana to the History and Theory of Cultural Saints: a Preface --; Cultural Sainthood and Great Immortality: an Introduction /; Sacral States: the Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular /; Framing the Bones of Dante and Petrarch: Literary Cults and Scientific Discourses /; Taming a Romantic: the Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz /; The Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult /; Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Prešeren /; Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement /; Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon /; Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan Cultural Saint /; “Altars of the Flemish Movement”: Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building /; Hero or Traitor? The Cultural Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Beyond /; Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia’s Cultural Saint and a Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church /; The Third Canonization of Njegoš, the National Poet of Montenegro /; Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu’s Lateral Canonization /; Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plečnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification /; From the Culture of Saints to the Saints of Culture: the Saint and the Writer between Life and Work /; Back Matter --; Index of Names.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900439513X
• ISSN: 1876-5645
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marijan Dović, Jón Karl Helgason.

In Great Immortality , twenty scholars from considerably different cultural backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory. Through individual case studies, many of the contributors expand and challenge the concepts of cultural sainthood and canonization as developed by Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason in National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (Brill, 2017). Even though the major focus of the book is the nineteenth-century cults of national poets, the volume examines a wide variety of cases in a very broad temporal and geographical framework – from Dante and Petrarch to the most recent attempts to sanctify artists by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and from the rise of a medieval Icelandic author of sagas to the veneration of a poet and national leader in Georgia. Contributors are: Bojan Baskar, Marijan Dović, Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, David Fishelov, Jernej Habjan, Simon Halink, Jón Karl Helgason, Harald Hendrix, Andraž Jež, Marko Juvan, Alenka Koron, Roman Koropeckyj, Joep Leerssen, Christian Noack, Jaume Subirana, Magí Sunyer, Andreas Stynen, Andrei Terian, Bela Tsipuria, and Luka Vidmar.