Promoting the saints : cults and their contexts from late antiquity until the early modern period : essays in honor of Gabor Klaniczay / edited by Otto Gecser ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gecser, Ottó.

Series:

CEU medievalia ; 12.

CEU medievalia, 1587-6470 ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian hagiography.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Modern period, 1500-.

Europe--Church history.

Europe.

Hungary--Church history.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors—from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history—represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography

Theological Self-Definition in Byzantine Miraculous Healing

(Re)claiming Adalbert. Patristic Quotations and Their Function in Canaparius’ Vita S. Adalberti

“Pull you Sons of Whores!” Linguistic Register and Reform in the Legend of St. Clement

Hagiography and Chronicles

Hagiography and Biography. The Case of St. Francis of Assisi

Idolatry or Power. St. Francis in Front of the Sultan

Blessed John the French, The First Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his Miracles

Fama sanctitatis and the Emergence of St. Margaret’s Cult in the Rural Countryside. The Canonization Process and Social Mobility in Thirteenth-Century Hungary

The Techniques of a Hagiographer. The Two Legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary

St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian Vernacular Literature. Vitae, Miracles, Revelations, and the Meditations on the Life of Crist

Division and Reintegration of the Body of St. Stanislaus. A Political Analogy in Sermons?

Saints, Names, and Identities. The Case of Charles IV of Luxemburg

Saints at Home and Abroad. Some Observations on the Creation of Iconographic Types in Hungary in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Palatine Lackfi and His Saints. Frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely

Late Medieval Saints and the Visual Representation of Rural Space

Sainthood in the Propaganda of Mendicant Orders. The Case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches

Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death (1348–ca. 1500)

“Had She Born Ten Daughters, She Would Have Named Them All Mary because of the Kindness of the First Mary”. St. Anne in the Sermons of Two Late Medieval Hungarian Preachers

The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images

Madonna of Loreto as a Target of Reformation Critique. Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger

Saint Christopher. The Patron of Treasure Hunters

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72151-6

963-386-392-9

1-283-24844-1

9786613248442

963-9776-94-7

1-4416-9463-3

9781003721512

OCLC:

816860871