Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses

Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe

Gábor Klaniczay author Eva Pálmai translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Aug '07

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A study of medieval Hungarian and central European royal saints.

In the central Middle Ages most royal dynasties included saints in their family. Building upon a series of case studies from Hungary and central Europe, Gábor Klaniczay proposes a synthesis of the multiple forms and transformations of royal and dynastic sainthood.Medieval dynasties frequently relied upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy. After the early medieval emergence of this type of sainthood, in the central Middle Ages most royal dynasties had saints in their family: Edward the Confessor, Olaf, Canute, Louis IX, Charlemagne, the Emperor Henry II, and Wenceslas are some of the best-known examples. Within this context the saints of the Hungarian ruling dynasty - the Arpadians - constitute a remarkable sequence: St Stephen, St Emeric, St Ladislas, St Elizabeth, St Margaret and other central European blessed princesses, whose convents mirrored the Court of Heaven. This sequence of dynastic saints provide an example of the late medieval evolution of royal and dynastic sainthood. Building upon a series of case studies from Hungary and central Europe, Gábor Klaniczay proposes a synthesis of the multiple forms and transformations of royal and dynastic sainthood in medieval Europe.

'… opens up a whole world to the anglophone public … Both Gábor Laniczay and the rulers and princesses he writes about deserve a wider audience.' History
'This book … is a valuable contribution to the study of sanctity in medieval Hungary.' The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

ISBN: 9780521038997

Dimensions: 225mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 753g

512 pages