TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Dam,Raymond
TI  - Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul
SN  - 9780691021126
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeneid
KW  - Alternative medicine
KW  - Amulet
KW  - Archdeacon
KW  - Ariamir
KW  - Arianism
KW  - Augustine of Hippo
KW  - Austrasia
KW  - Baptism of the Lord
KW  - Brioude
KW  - Burgundians
KW  - Burial
KW  - Caesarius
KW  - Catholicism
KW  - Chararic (Frankish king)
KW  - Chlothar I
KW  - Chlothar II
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church Fathers
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Confidant
KW  - Consecration
KW  - Deference
KW  - Desiderius
KW  - Dysentery
KW  - Easter
KW  - Eternal life (Christianity)
KW  - Exorcism
KW  - Falernian wine
KW  - Folk healer
KW  - Fredegund
KW  - Generosity
KW  - Georgius
KW  - God
KW  - Great martyr
KW  - Gregorius
KW  - Gregory of Tours
KW  - Hagiography
KW  - Helladius
KW  - Heresy
KW  - His Family
KW  - Historian
KW  - Humility
KW  - Intercession
KW  - Jews
KW  - Late Antiquity
KW  - Lent
KW  - Leprosy
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literature
KW  - Magnus Maximus
KW  - Marmoutier
KW  - Martin of Tours
KW  - Martyr
KW  - Matricula
KW  - Merovech
KW  - Merovingian dynasty
KW  - Monastery
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Paganism
KW  - Palladius of Saintes
KW  - Patron saint
KW  - Paulinus of Nola
KW  - Penitential
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Peter and Paul
KW  - Piety
KW  - Poitiers
KW  - Pope Gregory I
KW  - Potion
KW  - Predestination
KW  - Procession
KW  - Putrefaction
KW  - Radegund
KW  - Relic
KW  - Reliquary
KW  - Remigius
KW  - Resurrection of the dead
KW  - Righteousness
KW  - Rite
KW  - Roman Gaul
KW  - Saint
KW  - School of Graduate Studies (SPS)
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Self-healing
KW  - Silvester
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Suffragan bishop
KW  - Sulpicius Severus
KW  - Theodosius I
KW  - Theology
KW  - Tomb
KW  - Tours
KW  - True Cross
KW  - Veneration
KW  - Visigoths
KW  - Weidemann
KW  - Word of Faith
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; Part I. --; CHAPTER ONE. Different Saints, Different Cults --; CHAPTER TWO. Gregory of Tours and His Patron Saints --; CHAPTER THREE. Bodily Miracles --; CHAPTER FOUR. Pilgrimages and Miracle Stories --; EPILOGUE --; Part II: Translations --; Fortunatus --; Gregory of Tours --; Gregory of Tours --; EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; MAP --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life. Here Raymond Van Dam uses accounts of miracles performed by SS. Martin, Julian, and Hilary to provide a vivid and comprehensive depiction of some of the most influential saints' cults. Viewed within the context of ongoing tensions between paganism and Christianity and between Frankish kings and bishops, these cults tell much about the struggle for authority, the forming of communities, and the concept of sin and redemption in late Roman Gaul.Van Dam begins by describing the origins of the three cults, and discusses the career of Bishop Gregory of Tours, who benefited from the support of various patron saints and in turn promoted their cults. He then treats the political and religious dimensions of healing miracles--including their relation to Catholic theology and their use by bishops to challenge royal authority--and of pilgrimages to saints' shrines. The miracle stories, collected mainly by Gregory of Tours, appear in their first complete English translations
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821143
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