Images of Medieval Sanctity

Images of Medieval Sanctity
Author: Debra Higgs Strickland
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004160531

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.

Images of Medieval Sanctity

Images of Medieval Sanctity
Author: Debra Higgs Strickland
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-08-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9047420683

Assembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in medieval popular religion, including ‘religious enthusiasm’. Together, the essays comprise a comprehensive and 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). By approaching the theme of sanctity from multiple disciplinary perspectives, this highly original collection pushes forward current academic thinking about medieval hagiography, iconography, social history, women's studies, and architectural history.

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe
Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501745506

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.

Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt

Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt
Author: Richard J. A. McGregor
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791460122

Using the original, little-known writings of Sufis Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa', this book explores the development of the idea of Islamic sainthood in the post-Ibn 'Arabi period.

Sanctity in the North

Sanctity in the North
Author: Thomas Andrew DuBois
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 080209130X

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.

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe
Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 315
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780801425073

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.

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000–1200

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000–1200
Author: Paul Oldfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139915797

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.

Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture

Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture
Author: William Burgwinkle
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719080296

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.

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200
Author: Paul Oldfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107000289

This book integrates the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offering important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith.

Gender and Holiness

Gender and Holiness
Author: Sam Riches
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134514891

This volume examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilize 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.