Images of Medieval sanctity : essays in honour of Gary Dickson / / edited by Debra Higgs Strickland.
Assembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickso...
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| Superior document: | Visualising the Middle Ages, v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Visualising the Middle Ages ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Notes: | Most papers originally presented at a 3-day conference held July 2004 at the University of Edinburgh, to mark Gary Dickson's retirement from its Department of History. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / D. Higgs Strickland
- The women behind their saints: Dominican women’s promotion of the cults of their religious companions / Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner
- Gender trouble in paradise: The problem of the liturgical virgo / Felice Lifshitz
- Saint Triduana of Restalrig? Locating a saint and her cult in late medieval Lothian and beyond / Helen Brown
- The architectural framework for the cults of saints: Some scottish examples / Richard Fawcett
- The holy and the unholy: Analogies for the numinous in later medieval art
- The measure of the virgin’s foot / Michael Bury
- Living image of pity: Mimetic violence, peace-making and salvific spectacle in the flagellant processions of the later Middle Ages / Mitchell B. Merback
- Perceptions of relics: Civic religion in late medieval Bruges / Andrew Brown
- Constructing anglo-saxon sanctity: Tradition, innovation and Saint Guthlac / Alaric Hall
- List of contributors / D. Higgs Strickland
- Index / D. Higgs Strickland.