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Hagiography and the history of Latin Christendom, 500-1500 /
"Every medieval saint's cult required a set of narratives, for every saint was defined by the story that revealed his or her sanctity. Such narratives were often transmitted as Latin texts, although they could be written in the vernacular or composed and preserved orally- and indeed many s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2020.
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| Colección: | Reading medieval sources,
volume 4 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Creating and Transmitting Texts; Chapter 1 Constructing the Text: a Comparative Study of Two Saints' Lives Written c.1200; Creating the Saint; Documenting the Community; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter 2 From "Real Life" to Saint's Life: Biography and Hagiography in the Vitae of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer; Initial Image-Making: from the Hour of Death until the Moment of Canonization
- After Canonization: Writing the Life of a New SaintSaints' Lives in Conversation; Further Reading; Chapter 3 Understanding Pictorial Hagiography (with Comments on the Illustrated Life of Wandrille); Effects and Reception of Hagiographical Narrative; Pictorial Hagiography as Narrative Version; Narrative Issues: Time and Truth in Hagiography; Specific Issues in Pictorial Hagiograpy; Pictures, Edification and Imitation-Body and Gesture; A Case Study: the Libellus of Wandrille; The Historical Wandrille and His Monastery; The Libellus and Its Versions of Wandrille
- The Life of Gerald of Aurillac-an Intertextual ComparisonThe Wandrille Illustrations and Their Depiction of a Peaceful Lord; Further Reading; Chapter 4 Saints' Lives on the Move: the Circulation of Apostolic Legends; Carolingian Circulation; Manuscripts and the Circulation of Apostolic Legends after c.1100; Beyond Manuscripts-Implicit Circulation; Conlcusion; Further Reading; Chapter 5 Thirteenth-Century Legendae Novae and the Preaching Orders: a Communication System; Characteristics of the Literary Genre; Contents; Exterior Form
- Absence of Definite Demarcation between Various Authors and WorksUse of Secretaries; A Communication System; The Originators of the Genre; Iohannes de Mailliaco (Jean de Mailly): Abbreviatio in Gestis Sanctorum; Bartholomeus Tridentinus (Bartholomew of Trent): Liber Epilogorum in Gestis Sanctorum; The Crowning Work of the Genre: the Legenda aurea of Jacobus de Voragine; Further Reading; Part 2 Constructing Religious Life, History and the Self; Chapter 6 Vita Vel Regula: Multifunctional Hagiography in the Early Middle Ages; Two Troublesome Saints; Vita Vel Regula; A Simple-Minded Saint
- The Double Life of GallusConclusion: So Many Saints-So Little Time49; Further Reading; Chapter 7 Bishops, Monks and Priests: Defining Religious Institutions by Writing and Rewriting Saints' Lives (Francia, 6th-11th Centuries); The Changing Episcopal Model; Hagiography and Monastic Reform in the First Half of the Ninth Century; Lives of Saintly Priests (9th-10th Centuries); Further Reading; Chapter 8 Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship; Saintly Attributes and Civic Meaning in the Musical Veneration of St John the Evangelist