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9780203166000

The Invention of Saintliness

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203166000

  • ISBN10:

    0203166000

  • Copyright: 2004-01-14
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Invention of Saintliness: Texts and Contexts
Contexts: the Cult of Saints and the Invention of Saintliness
Arnold Angenendt Relics and their Veneration in the Middle Ages
Saints without a Past: Sacred Places and Intercessory Power in Saints' Lives from the Low Countries
Renee Nip Life and Afterlife: Arnlulf of Oudenburg, Bishop of Soissons, and Godelieve of Gistel: Their Function as Intercessors in Medieval Flanders
Texts: the Lives of Saints and the Invention of Saintliness
'Whither Runnest Thou?' The Conception of Saintliness in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius
The West European Alexius Legend
Bernhard Gallistl Bernward of Hildesheim: a Case of Self-Planned Sainthood?
Bert Roest Dealing with Brother Ass: Bodily Aspects of the Franciscan Sanctification of the Self
Ineke van 't Spijker Saints and Despair: Twelfth-Century Hagiography as 'Intimate Biography'
Literary Genre and Degrees of Saintliness: the Perception of Holiness in Writings By and About Female Mystics
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