Promoting the Saints

Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity Until the Early Modern Period

Marcell Sebők editor Balázs Nagy editor Ottó Gecser editor József Laszlovszky editor Katalin Szende editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Central European University Press

Published:1st Jul '10

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This collection of essays is about sanctity, demonstrating the multiplicity of aspects this condition had in Western medieval Christianity. The studies concentrate on the complex set of the socio-cultural phenomena of the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from Pope Damasus in the fourth until St. Christopher in the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors-from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history-represents the open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the medievalist community at the Central European University. Top erudition and scholarly precision meets the mystical world of Catholic saints. Some of the essays contain numerous black and white illustrations.

ISBN: 9789639776937

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 619g

336 pages