TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuuliala,Jenni
TI  - Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages
T2  - Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
SN  - 9789048533343
U1  - 235.2 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Disability studies
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - Health and Medicine
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Religion and Theology
KW  - Sociology and Social History
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Hagiography, canonization, sainthood, dis/ability
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Infirmitas Leading to Saintly Life --; Patientia and the Borders of Holy Infirmity --; Abstinence, Devotional Practices, and Social Control --; Holy Infirmity and the Devotees --; Conclusions Infirmity, Community, and Canonization --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Drawing on new work in medieval dis/ability studies, this book analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an individual saint's bodily ailment investigated in the inquests, and how did the witnesses (re)construct the saintly candidates' ailments? What meanings were given to infirmity when providing proofs for holiness? This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life. Furthermore, it analyses how the meanings given to saints' infirmities influenced and reflected society's attitudes towards bodily ailments in general
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048533343?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048533343
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048533343/original
ER  -