Images of sainthood in medieval Europe / edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell
1991, First Edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #433388
ISBN: 0801425077
Physical description; vi, 315 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Lay people's sancitity in Western Europe: evolution of a pattern (Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries) / André Vauchez -- Sanctity and experience in pictorial hagiography: two illustrated lives of saints from Romanesque France / Magdalena Carrasco -- Spiritual sanctions in Wales / Lester K. Little -- National characteristics in the portrayal of English saints in the South English legendary / Klaus P. Jankofsky -- From the oral to the written in Medieval and Renaissance saints' lives / Evelyn Birge Vitz -- Martyrdom and the female voice: Saint Christine in the Cité des dames / Kevin Brownlee -- Saints, nuns, and speech in The Canterbury tales / Gail Berkeley Sherman -- Speaking without tongues: the Martyr Romanus and Augustine's theory of language in illustrations of Bern Burgerbibliothek Codex / Cynthia Hahn. (cont.) Non Alia Sed Aliter: the hermeneutics of gender in Bernard of Clairvaux / David Damrosch -- The need to give: suffering and female sanctity in the Middle Ages / Jo Ann McNamara -- Friars as confidants of holy women in Medieval Dominican hagiography / John Coakley -- Women saints, the vernacular, and history in early Medieval France / Karl D. Uitti -- The corporeality of female sancitity in The life of Saint Margaret / Elizabeth Robertson -- Holiness and the culture of devotion: remarks on some late Medieval male saints / Richared Kieckhefer. Subjects; To 1500. Christian hagiography History To 1500 ; Congresses. Christian saints Cult Europe History To 1500 ; Congresses. Medieval Christianity. HISTORY Medieval. Christian hagiography. Christian saints Cult.
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