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Living with the dead in the Middle Ages /
Annotation Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women acccorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Reading; 1 Saints, Scholars, and Society: The Elusive Goal; 2 The Uses of Archaeological Sources for Religious and Cultural History; Representing; 3 Germanic Tradition and Royal Ideology in the Ninth Century: The Visio Karoli Magni; 4 Exchange and Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Early Medieval Society; Negotiating; 5 Humiliation of Saints; 6 Coercion of Saints in Medieval Religious Practice.
- 7 Living with Conflicts in Stateless France: A Typology of Conflict Management Mechanisms, 1050-1200Reproducing; 8 The Saint and the Shrine: The Pilgrim's Goal in the Middle Ages; 9 The Ninth-Century Relic Trade-A Response to Popular Piety?; 10 Sacred Commodities: The Circulation of Medieval Relics; Living; 11 Saint Helen of Athyra and the Cathedral of Troyes in the Thirteenth Century; 12 The Magi and Milan; Index of Published Sources; General Index.