acta
Acta Sanctorum
Book III
bronze
canon law history
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Christ Child
church
Common Faithful
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evangelical perfection
female mystics writings
Hagiographic Discourse
hagiographical methodology
hildesheim
Holy Men
iii
Imperial Lance
Julia Domna
Latin Vitae
Mechthild's Work
Mechthild’s Work
medieval religious studies
medieval sanctity textual analysis
michael's
Mulieres Sanctae
Mystical Spirituality
Mystical Vitae
Opus Dei
otto
Otto III
Pop Stars
relics and veneration
sanctorum
St Michael's Church
St Michael’s Church
st.
Umiliana Dei Cerchi
Van Uytfanghe
Vice Versa
Vita Antonii
Vita Apollonii
Women Mystics
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415267595
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning definitions of saints and saintliness in a period before the concept was crystallized in canon law. As well as discussing sources and methodology, contributions cover contextual issues, including relics and veneration, life and the afterlife, and examinations of specific sources and texts. Subjects raised include the idea of hagiography as intimate biography, perceptions of holiness in writings by and about female mystics, and bodily aspects of the Franciscan search for evangelical perfection.
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Her wide-ranging publications on historiography, hagiography and Gender Studies include Sanctity and Motherhood (Garland, 1995), De Kluizenaar in de Eik (The Hermit in the Oak, 1995), and Gouden Legenden (Golden Legend, 1998). She is presently preparing a book on Anchoresses in the Low Countries.
