The invention of saintliness / / edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 235/.2
• Soggetto topico: Sanctification - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Mulder-BakkerAnneke B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Invention of Saintliness; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Part I: Introduction; 1. The Invention of Saintliness: Texts and Contexts; Part II: Contexts: The Cult of Saints and the Invention of Saintliness; 2. Relics and Their Veneration in the Middle Ages; 3. Saints Without a Past: Sacred Places and Intercessory Power in Saints' Lives from the Low Countries; 4. Life and Afterlife: Arnulf of Oudenburg, Bishop of Soissons, and Godelieve of Gistel. Their Function as Intercessors in Medieval Flanders ; Part III: Texts: The Lives of Saints and the Invention of Saintliness5. ''Whither Runnest Thou?'': The Conception of Saintliness in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius; 6. The West European Alexius Legend: With an Appendix Presenting the Medieval Latin Text Corpus in Its Context (Alexiana Latina Medii Aevi, I); 7. Bernward of Hildesheim: A Case of Self-Planned Sainthood?; 8. Dealing with Brother Ass: Bodily Aspects of the Franciscan Sanctification of the Self; 9. Saints and Despair: Twelfth-Century Hagiography as 'Intimate Biography' ; 10. Literary Genre and Degrees of Saintliness: The Perception of Holiness in Writings by and About Female MysticsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning definitions of saints and saintliness in a period before the concept was crystallized in canon law. As well as discussing sources and methodology, contributions cover contextual issues, including relics and veneration, life and the afterlife, and examinations of specific sources and texts. Subjects r
• Titolo autorizzato: The invention of saintliness
• ISBN: 0-415-86294-9; 1-280-18200-8; 1-134-49865-9; 0-203-16600-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451213703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture.