The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby : The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe /

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Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent becam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smoller, Laura Ackerman, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vincentius > Ferrerius > 1350-1419
Vincent Ferrer, > Saint, > approximately 1350-1419.
Vincent Ferrer, > Saint, > approximately 1350-1419 > Cult > Europe > History.
Heiligenverehrung
Cults.
Christian hagiography.
HISTORY > Medieval.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The situation
  • The process of canonization
  • Shaping the narratives of the saint
  • Creating the official image of the saint
  • Competing stories : whose Vincent Ferrer is it, anyway?
  • The afterlife of the chopped-up baby : the sixteenth century and beyond
  • Epilogue : Saint Vincent Ferrer in the Spanish Americas.

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