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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Saintliness written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134498640
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Saintliness written by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning definitions of saints and saintliness in a period before the concept was crystallized in canon law. As well as discussing sources and methodology, contributions cover contextual issues, including relics and veneration, life and the afterlife, and examinations of specific sources and texts. Subjects raised include the idea of hagiography as intimate biography, perceptions of holiness in writings by and about female mystics, and bodily aspects of the Franciscan search for evangelical perfection.
Author : Sarah Salih
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840725
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Middle English Hagiography written by Sarah Salih and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until recently been little studied. This collection introduces the canon of Middle English hagiography; places it in the context of the cults of saints; analyses key themes within hagiographic narrative, including gender, power, violence and history; and, finally, shows how hagiographic themes survived the Reformation. Overall it offers both information for those coming to the genre for the first time, and points forward to new trends in research. Dr SARAH SALIH is a Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: SAMANTHA RICHES, MARY BETH LONG, CLAIRE M. WATERS, ROBERT MILLS, ANKE BERNAU, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, MATTHEW WOODCOCK
Author : Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246365
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Saints and Ancestors written by Constance Brittain Bouchard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages. Working backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor the monasteries that would become fundamental to religious practice. As they met with political change and social upheaval, each generation decided which events of the past were worth remembering and which were to be reinterpreted or quietly forgotten. By considering memory as an analytic tool, Bouchard not only reveals the ways early medieval writers constructed a useful past but also provides new insights into the nature of record keeping, the changing ways dynasties were conceptualized, the relationships of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings to the church, and the discovery (or invention) of Gaul's earliest martyrs.
Author : Frederick George Llewellin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The History of Saint Clodock written by Frederick George Llewellin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Ashley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000396789
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of Saints written by Kathleen Ashley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together artifacts, texts, and practices within an interpretive framework that stresses the cultural work performed by saints, Kathleen Ashley presents a comparative study of the cults of the medieval Sainte Foy at a number of the sites where she was especially venerated. This book analyzes how each cult site produced the saint it needed, appropriating or creating whatever was required to that end. Ashley’s approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, incorporating visual, religious, medieval, and women’s and gender studies as well as literary studies and social history. She uses the theoretical framework of "cultural work" to analyze how the cult of Sainte Foy was sponsored and received by specific groups in different locales in Europe. The book is comprehensive in terms of historical as well as geographical range, tracing the history of the cult from the early Middle Ages into the present day. It also includes historiographical analysis, examining the way the cults of Sainte Foy have been represented in various historical accounts. Ashley’s narrative challenges the boundary between "elite" and "popular" culture and complicates the traditional vernacular vs. Latin language binary. A chief aim of the study is to show how "art" objects always operated in conjunction with other cultural texts to construct a saint’s cult. The volume is heavily illustrated, showing artifacts such as stained-glass windows and wall paintings which are not readily available from any other source. This book will be of special interest to scholars in art history, medieval history, gender studies, and religion.
Author : Joanna Skórzewska
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194975
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Constructing a Cult written by Joanna Skórzewska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a variety of extant written sources, this study offers a comprehensive reevaluation of Guðmundr Arason’s popularity in medieval Iceland. It presents a new perspective on the saintly fame and veneration of this controversial and interesting individual.
Author : Johan Leemans
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042916883
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (168 download)
Download or read book More Than a Memory written by Johan Leemans and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its history, persecutions and martyrdom have been Christianity's faithful companions. Remarkably enough, Christians have always valued martyrdom in a positive way. This positive evaluation of martyrdom most certainly has to do with the absolute, uncompromising nature of it. The martyrs' lives and deaths represent the most uncompromising of answers to the divine call. The focus of the contributions in this volume is not in the first place on reconstructing the historical events of the martyr's life and death "wie es eigentlich gewesen ist," but on the discourse generated by this event as mediated in texts. More than a Memory aims to explore the reciprocal relationship between this discourse of martyrdom and the construction of Christian identity. It will do so by presenting a number of test cases in which this dynamic can be seen at work. They will lead the reader through the entire history of Christianity, starting with the Martyrdom of Lyons and Vienne in the second century and ending in the Latin America of the 1960's. Each article will present a test case of discourse-analysis, attempting to explore the issue of how a document or coherent group of documents contributed to create a distinct Christian identity. Taken together, the essays provide an array of examples of how martyrdom impinged on the way Christian identity has been negotiated in the Christian past. In doing this, the volume at the same time illustrates the sheer importance of martyrdom and the reflection and writing about it throughout the history of Christianity until today.
Author : Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134498659
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Saintliness written by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in late antique saints is growing Takes an approach which combines historical and literary studies - will appeal cross disciplines to both groups, as well as appealing to scholars of religion International range of eminent contributors
Author : Elizabeth M. Dowling
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761928839
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development written by Elizabeth M. Dowling and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the developmental process of religion and spirituality across the human life span.This encyclopedia joins a recent trend in research and scholarship aimed at better understanding the similarities and differences between world religions and spiritualities, between expressions of the divine and between experiences of the transcendent.
Author : Sara Ritchey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150175355X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Acts of Care written by Sara Ritchey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval healthcare has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of their activities as religious rather than medical. The sources for identifying the scope of medieval women's health knowledge and healthcare practice, Ritchey argues, are not found in academic medical treatises. Rather, she follows fragile traces detectable in liturgy, miracles, poetry, hagiographic narratives, meditations, sacred objects, and the daily behaviors that constituted the world, as well as in testaments and land transactions from hospitals and leprosaria established and staffed by beguines and Cistercian nuns. Through its surprising use of alternate sources, Acts of Care reconstructs the vital caregiving practices of religious women in the southern Low Countries, reconnecting women's therapeutic authority into the everyday world of late medieval healthcare. Thanks to generous funding from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Author : Elizabeth Emery
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786417698
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Medieval Saints in Late Nineteenth Century French Culture written by Elizabeth Emery and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends, tales, and mysteries featuring saints captivated the French at the end of the nineteenth century. As Jean Lorrain pointed out in an 1891 article for the popular weekly Le Courrier Francais, the seemingly simple language of the saints' lives, their noble battles between good and evil and the atmosphere of religious mysticism appealed to many, especially those involved in the visual and performing arts. Ironically The Third Republic (1870-1940), a regime that claimed to reinforce and institute the secular ideas of the French Revolution, was witness to this great popular interest in the saints and religious imagery. The eight essays in this work explore the popularity of the saints from the 1850s to the 1920s. The essays evaluate the role they played in literature, art, music, science, history and politics, examine portrayals of the saints' lives in both low and high culture (from children's literature, shadow plays and the popular press to literature, opera and theological studies), and reveal the prevalence of the saints in fin-de-siecle France.
Author : Penelope T. Sturgis Cook Tuttle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Saint Luke's Church in the City of New York 1820-1920 written by Penelope T. Sturgis Cook Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004537783
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new approaches to the study of typology in Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture and highlights the importance of type and archetype in constructing architecture and image theories.
Author : Irene Visser
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917552
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Transforming Holiness written by Irene Visser and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of essays addresses the question of how holiness has been represented in English and American literary texts from early saints' lives to the poetry of the mid-twentieth century. The interaction of spiritual ideals with the creative and often worldly imagination is examined in the work of writers as varied as George Herbert, Harriet Beecher Stowe and D.H. Lawrence. The range of genres discussed includes not only devotional poetry and apparently secular prose fiction, but also political ballads, personal conduct books and congregational psalms and hymns. Holiness is set in relation to vital issues such as creativity, gender, Romanticism, translation and visual culture. Together the essays reveal the full meaning of the title of the collection: that holiness, a transforming force, has transformed itself radically as a concept over the centuries, and undergoes dynamic transformation through its expression in literature.
Author : Douglas Burnham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441181148
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Nietzsche Dictionary written by Douglas Burnham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche is not difficult to read, but he is famously difficult to understand. This is because of the bewildering array of words, phrases or metaphors that he uses. The Nietzsche Dictionary aims to help, by giving readers a road map to Nietzsche's language, and how his terminology and images relate together, forming an overall philosophical picture. The Dictionary also includes synopses of Nietzsche's key works, and short articles on the main philosophical and cultural influences leading up to, and resulting from, Nietzsche. Easy to use and navigate, the book treats all entries thematically and arranges them into seven types: Influences on, or the contemporary context of, Nietzsche; Major influences of Nietzsche; Key concepts; Key metaphors or images; Alternative translations; Other words or phrases found in Nietzsche that are cross-referenced to a main entry; Synopses of major works by Nietzsche. Designed to be a resource that all readers of Nietzsche will find invaluable, this text is an essential tool for everyone, from beginners to the more advanced.
Author : Cornelius James Kirkfleet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Saint Norbert written by Cornelius James Kirkfleet and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
