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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136234203321

Titolo

Church and belief in the Middle Ages : popes, saints, and crusaders / / edited by Kirsi Salonen and Sari Katajala-Peltomaa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2016

ISBN

90-485-5119-6

90-485-2572-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Crossing boundaries : Turku Medieval and early modern studies ; ; 3.

Disciplina

270.3

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Nota di contenuto

; I. Papal administration. The cost of grace. The composition fees in the penitentiary, c. 1450-1500 / Ludwig Schmugge -- Career prospects of minor curialists in the fifteenth century: the case of Petrus Profilt / Jussi Hanska -- A criminal trial at the court of the chamber auditor. An analysis of a registrum from 1515-1516 in the Danish National Archives / Per Ingesman -- ; II. Saints and miracles. The power of the saints and the authority of the Popes. The history of sainthood and late medieval canonization process / Gábor Klaniczay -- Velut alter Alexius. The Saint Alexius model in medieval hagiography / Paolo Golinelli -- Judicium medicine and judicium sanctitatis. Medieval doctors in the canonization process of Nicholas of Tolentino (1325): experts subject to the inquisitorial logic / Didier Lett -- Heavenly healing or failure of faith? Partial cures in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala -- ; III. Crusades and conversion. Servi Beatae Marie Virginis. Christians and pagans in Henry's Chronicle of Livonia / Jüri Kivimäe -- Holy war -- holy wrath! Baltic wars between regulated warfare and total annihilation aroudn 1200 / Kurt Villads Jensen -- The Swedish expeditions ('Crusades') towards Finland reconsidered / Jens E. Olesen.

Sommario/riassunto

The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of



popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.