Images Of Medieval Sanctity

Author : Debra Higgs Strickland
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160531
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Medieval Sanctity written by Debra Higgs Strickland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume's essays together provide a rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth centuries) and in different geographical locations (England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Low Countries) from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Author : Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745506
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe written by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Thomas Andrew DuBois
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080209130X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity in the North written by Thomas Andrew DuBois and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.

Author : William Burgwinkle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719080296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture written by William Burgwinkle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture exposes the complexity of bodily exposure in medieval devotion and contemporary pornographic cultures. Through readings of texts and images, sacred and profane, from preimodern France and Italy as well as Anglo-American modernity, the book makes a case for paying closer attention to the surfaces of our bodies and the desires that those surfaces can articulate and arouse. From the Old French life of Saint Alexis to the work of writer-filmmaker Miranda July, from Wakefield Poole to Pietro Aretino, these are texts and images that diminish the distance between premodern Europe and contemporary California, between the sacred and the profane, as they demonstrate how, in the end as in the beginning, the surface of things is never simple.

Author : Richard J. A. McGregor
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485471
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt written by Richard J. A. McGregor and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muḥammad Wafāʼ and his son 'Alī, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its "saints," the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and developed a variety of ideas concerning miracles, sanctity, saintly intermediaries, and pious role models. In the writings of the Wafāʼs, a complete mystical worldview unfolds, one with a distinct doctrine of sainthood and a novel understanding of the apocalypse. Using almost entirely unedited manuscript sources, author Richard J. A. McGregor shows in detail how Muḥammad and 'Alī Wafāʼ drew on earlier philosophical and gnostic currents to construct their own mystical theories and notes their debt to the Sufi order of the Shadhiliyya, the mystic al-Tirmidhī, and the great Sufi thinker Ibn ʿArabī. Notably, although located firmly within the Sunni tradition, the Wafāʼs felt free to draw on Shi'ite ideas for the construction of their own theory of the final great saint.

Author : Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139915797
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000–1200 written by Paul Oldfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths of the medieval world, where Latin Christian, Greek Christian and Muslim communities coexisted. In this study, the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of sanctity and pilgrimage in southern Italy between 1000 and 1200, Paul Oldfield presents a fascinating picture of a politically and culturally fragmented land which, as well as hosting its own important relics as important pilgrimage centres, was a transit point for pilgrims and commercial traffic. Drawing on a diverse range of sources from hagiographical material to calendars, martyrologies, charters and pilgrim travel guides, the book examines how sanctity functioned at this key cultural crossroads and, by integrating the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offers important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith in the region and across the medieval world.

Author : Sam Riches
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134514883
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Holiness written by Sam Riches and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of interdisciplinary cultural history includes contributions from historians, art historians and literary critics and will be of interest not only to medievalists, but also to students of religion and gender in any period.

Author : Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801425073
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe written by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 such key issues as the place of sanctity in society, the role of gender in the representation of sainthood, and the use of hagiographic conventions in other genres.

Author : Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000289
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 written by Paul Oldfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offering important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith.

Author : Anneke Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134819498
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity and Motherhood written by Anneke Mulder-Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a religious life and functioned as holy women in their community. Despite increasing respect, tension between the roles of saint and wife persisted. Saintly women were not expected to be happily married: the ancient prejudice against sexual passion and physical ease mitigated the enjoyment of married life.The book's original essays focus on Northern Europe, where the cult of Saint Anne reached its climax around 1500. It does not explore Church doctrine and theology, as other studies do, but examines the religious experience of historical holy mothers and saints and how these women were perceived by their communities and their biographers.