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The saint and the chopped-up baby : the cult of Vincent Ferrer in medieval and early modern Europe / Laura Ackerman Smoller.
LIBRA BX4700.V7 S66 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smoller, Laura Ackerman, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419--Cult--Europe--History.
- Vincent Ferrer.
- Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419.
- Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.
- Christian hagiography.
- History.
- Cults.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Prologue : From preacher to saint
- The situation
- The process of canonization
- Shaping the narratives of the saint
- Creating the official image of the saint
- Competing stories : whose Vincent Ferrer is it anyway?
- The afterlife of the chopped-up baby : the sixteenth century and beyond
- Epilogue : Saint Vincent Ferrer in the Spanish Americas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801452178
- 0801452171
- OCLC:
- 851572834
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