A01=Donald Weinstein
A01=Rudolph M. Bell
Author_Donald Weinstein
Author_Rudolph M. Bell
biography
care of children
Category=QRAX
Category=QRM
catholicism
chastity
christianity
class
cloister
devotion
divinity
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
family
gender
hagiography
history
holiness
holy men
inspiration
latin christendom
martyrdom
medieval
middle ages
nonfiction
piety
religion
religious women
sacred
sacrifice
saints
sanctity
spirituality
veneration
Product details
- ISBN 9780226890562
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 1986
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell examine the lives of 864 saints who lived between 1000 and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity prevalent in late medieval and early modern Europe. They also provide a substantial body of information on the people among whom the saints lived and by whom they came to be venerated. In the first part, the authors give close consideration to what the saints' lives reveal about childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; the impact of religious inspiration upon family bonds; and family influences upon religious behavior. The second part provides a composite picture of piety and its changing configuration in Latin Christendom. With the assistance of statistical analysis, the authors answer questions involving the popular perception of holiness, social class, and gender.
