TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blumenfeld-Kosinski,Renate
AU  - Berkeley Sherman,Gail
AU  - Birge Vitz,Evelyn
AU  - Brownlee,Kevin
AU  - Carrasco,Magdalena
AU  - Cazelles,Brigitte
AU  - Coakley,John
AU  - Damrosch,David
AU  - Hahn,Cynthia
AU  - Jankofsky,Klaus P.
AU  - Kieckhefer,Richard
AU  - Little,Lester K.
AU  - Mcnamara,Joann
AU  - Robertson,Elizabeth
AU  - Szell,Timea
AU  - Uitti,Karl D.
AU  - Vauchez,André
TI  - Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe
SN  - 9781501745508
U1  - 235/.2/0940902 20
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Christian hagiography
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Cult
KW  - Europe
KW  - Medieval & Renaissance Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editors' Note --; Introduction --; PART I. HAGIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY --; 1. Lay People's Sanctity in Western Europe: Evolution of a Pattern (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) --; 2. Sanctity and Experience in Pictorial Hagiography: Two Illustrated Lives of Saints from Romanesque France --; 3. Spiritual Sanctions in Wales --; 4. National Characteristics in the Portrayal of English Saints in the South English Legendary --; PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE --; 5. From the Oral to the Written in Medieval and Renaissance Saints' Lives --; 6. Martyrdom and the Female Voice: Saint Christine in the Cité des dames --; 7. Saints, Nuns, and Speech in the Canterbury Tales --; 8. Speaking without Tongues: The Martyr Romanus and Augustine's Theory of Language in Illustrations of Bern Burgerbibliothek Codex 264 --; 9. Non Alia Sed Aliter: The Hermeneutics of Gender in Bernard of Clairvaux --; PART III. SAINTLINESS AND GENDER --; 10. The Need to Give: Suffering and Female Sanctity in the Middle Ages --; 11. Friars as Confidants of Holy Women in Medieval Dominican Hagiography --; 12. Women Saints, the Vernacular, and History in Early Medieval France --; 13. The Corporeality of Female Sanctity in The Life of Saint Margaret --; 14. Holiness and the Culture of Devotion: Remarks on Some Late Medieval Male Saints --; Notes on Contributors and Editors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages. Bringing together fourteen essays by contributors representing a number of disciplines, it illuminates issues including the place of sanctity in society, the role of gender in the representation of sainthood, and the use of hagiographic conventions in other genres
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745508
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501745508
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501745508/original
ER  -