Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours / / Sharon Farmer.

Sharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communities-the town of Tours, the basilica of Saint-Martin there, and the abbey of Marmoutier nearby-all defined themselves through the cult of Saint Martin. She demonstrates how in the early Middle Ages the bishops of Tours used the...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1991.
©1991.
Year of Publication:1991
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 358 p. :); ill. ;
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