Promoting the saints : cults and their contexts from late antiquity until the early modern period : essays in honor of Gábor Klaniczay for his 60th birthday / edited by Ottó Gecser ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gecser, Ottó.

Series:

CEU medievalia ; 12.

CEU medievalia, 1587-6470 ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Klaniczay, Gábor.

Christian hagiography.

Europe--Church history.

Europe.

Church history.

Hungary--Church history.

Hungary.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Church history--Modern period, 1500-.

Church history--Modern period.

Physical Description:

x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Medievalists specializing variously in history, literature, art, or religion explore sanctity, one of the main themes of their teacher and colleague Klaniczay at Central European University, Budapest. The topics include theological self-definition in Byzantine miraculous healing, hagiography and chronicles, the hagiography and biography of St. Francis of Assisi, the emergence of St. Margaret's cult in the rural countryside, the creation of iconographic types in Hungary in the 14th and 15th centuries, sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death 1348-1500, Madonna of Loreto as a target of reformation critique, and Saint Christopher the patron of treasure hunters. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Pope Damasus and the beginnings of Roman hagiography / Marianne Sághy

Theological self-definition in Byzantine miraculous healing / Ildikó Csepregi

(Re)claiming Adalbert : patristic quotations and their function in Canaparius' Vita S. Adalberti / Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar

"Pull you sons of whores!" : linguistic register and reform in the legend of St. Clement / Patrick Geary

Hagiography and chronicles / János Bak

Hagiography and biography : the case of St. Francis of Assisi / André Vauchez

Idolatry or power : St. Francis in front of the Sultan / Péter Bokody

Blessed John the French, the first Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his miracles / Stanko Andrić

Fama sanctitatis and the emergence of St. Margaret's cult in the rural countryside / József Laszlovszky

The techniques of a hagiographer : the two legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary / Viktória Deák

St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian vernacular literature : vitae, miracles, revelations and the Meditations on the life of Christ / Dávid Falvay

Division and reintegration of the body of St. Stanislaus : a political analogy in sermons? / Stanislava Kuzmová

Saints, names, and identities : the case of Charles IV of Luxemburg / Balázs Nagy

Saints at home and abroad : some observations on the creation of iconographic types in Hungary of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Ernő Marosi

Palatine Lackfi and his saints : frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely / Béla Zsolt Szakács

Late medieval saints and the visual representation of rural space / Gerhard Jaritz

Sainthood in the propaganda of mendicant orders : the case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches / György Galamb

Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death (1348-ca. 1500) / Ottó Gecser

"Had she born ten daughters, she would have named them all Mary because because of the kindness of the first Mary" : St. Anne in the sermons of two late medieval Hungarian preachers / Emőke Nagy

The cult of the saints in the Bohemian Reformation : the question of images / Petra Mutlova

Madonna of Loreto as a target of Reformation critique : Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger / Marina Miladinov

Saint Christopher, the patron of treasure-hunters / Benedek Láng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789639776944

9639776947

9789639776937

9639776939

OCLC:

629700637