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Book Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europe

Download or read book Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europe written by Marie Škarpová and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europe

Download or read book Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europe written by MARIE KARPOVA ET AL. and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doing Memory  Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region  19th 20th Centuries

Download or read book Doing Memory Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region 19th 20th Centuries written by Cordelia Heß and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire.

Book Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature

Download or read book Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature written by Alison Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and to challenge early modern ideas of patronage -- not just patronage in the narrow sense of the immediate economic relations obtaining between client and sponsor, but also patronage as a society-wide system of obligation and reward that itself crystallized a whole culture’s assumptions about order and degree. The works studied in this book -- ranging from Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, written early in the 1590s, to Milton’s Masque Performed at Ludlow Castle, written in 1634 -- are patronage works, either aimed at a specific patron or showing a keen awareness of the larger patronage system. This volume challenges the idea that the early modern world had shrugged off its own medieval past, instead arguing that Protestant writers in the period were actively using the medieval Catholic ideal of the saint as a means to represent contemporary systems of hierarchy and dependence. Saints had been the ideal -- and idealized -- patrons of the medieval world and remained so for early modern English recusants. As a result, their legends and iconographies provided early modern Protestant authors with the perfect tool for thinking about the urgent and complex question of who owed allegiance to whom in a rapidly changing world.

Book Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints

Download or read book Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints written by Anu Mänd and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between medieval cults of saints and regional and national identity formation in Europe both during and, to some extent, beyond the Middle Ages. It studies how collective identities have been expressed through saints’ cults and their appropriations in texts, visual representations, and music. Attention is given to various aspects of the role of medieval saints’ cults in European identity formation, as saints were used in the service of both religious and political agendas. Focusing on a range of European regions, this volume uses cults of medieval saints and their religious, cultural and political appropriations over time as a vehicle for studying changing cultural and social values. The articles here report research carried out under the European Science Foundation’s collaborative EuroCORECODE project: Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints’ Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities (2010–2013/14), an international, interdisciplinary research venture funded by the National Research Councils of five countries: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, and Norway.

Book Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

Download or read book Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism written by Erin Kathleen Rowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

Book The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints

Download or read book The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints written by Carmen Florea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that explores the nature of sainthood in a region at the margins of medieval Latin Christendom. Defining the model of sanctity that characterized Transylvania between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the study considers how the cults of saints functioned within specific local social and cultural contexts. Analyzing case studies from a multi-ethnic region influenced by both the Latin and Eastern Christian traditions, this book provides a close reading of little-surveyed primary sources and offers a comprehensive understanding of sainthood in Transylvania, enhancing the broader study of medieval saints’ cults and their relationship to social power structures. It will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religion, researchers in medieval studies, and religious studies scholars engaged in comparative research.

Book Women and Art in Early Modern Europe  Patrons  Collectors  and Connoisseurs

Download or read book Women and Art in Early Modern Europe Patrons Collectors and Connoisseurs written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods. By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally. While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.

Book The Directory of Saints

Download or read book The Directory of Saints written by Annette Sandoval and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For everything from abandoned children to zoos, a saint has been designated as a special intercessor. The entries in this unique sourcebook detail the saint's life, date of canonization, and the reason for the saint's relevance in a particular area. And it is also simple to locate the patron saint for hundreds of areas by consulting the directory's easy-to-use listing of concerns and subjects, which includes specific professions, such as nurses, teachers, military personnel, or construction workers; places; acts of nature or weather; and others as varied as illnesses, family problems, love and marriage, employment, and academic exams." "Also included for each saint are baptismal names and feast days so that readers can choose ways to honor their patrons. An index cross-references each saint to all areas of responsibility. Functional and accessible, The Directory of Saints is the perfect resource in an area of rapidly growing interest."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe written by Charles Lipp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and education, disruptions caused by war and religious strife, changing political ideas and concepts, the growth of a market economy, and the evolution of centralized states in order to maintain their lineage, reputation, and position. Through an examination of the differing strategies utilized to protect their status, this collection reveals much about the fundamental role of the 'second order' in European history and how they had to redefine the social and cultural 'spaces' in which they found themselves. By using a transnational and comparative approach to the study of the European nobility, the volume offers exciting new perspectives on this important, if often misunderstood, social group.

Book Neulateinisches Jahrbuch

Download or read book Neulateinisches Jahrbuch written by Marc Laureys and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detaillierte Informationen zum Neulateinischen Jahrbuch erhalten Sie hier: https://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/de/medneolat/neulateinisches-jahrbuch Conspectus rerum In memoriam MARCUS DE SCHEPPER, Nachruf auf Jeanine De Landtsheer I. Commentationes EDUARDO DEL PINO, La Victoriae in freto Gaditano descriptio de Bonaventura Vulcanio: un caso más del “limae labor” de los autores neo-latinos / STEFAN ELIT, Ein kaiserlicher Wüterich und zwei antagonistische Simons. Der Nero furens als Beispiel aus dem Paderborner Jesuitendramenkorpus / PETER GROSSARDT, Sprachliche Bemerkungen zu Poggio Bracciolinis Brief aus Baden (I 46 Harth) / DELILA JORDAN, Die beiden frühneuzeitlichen Editionen des Berichts von Martin Baumgartners Reise ins Heilige Land zwischen literarischer Aneignung und wissenschaftlicher Editionsarbeit / WALTHER LUDWIG, Die Epigrammatum libelli quatuor von Salomon Frenzel (1588) – eine biographische und literarische Auswertung / WALTHER LUDWIG, Musik in Ferrara – der Hymnus an die ‚Musica‘ des Girolamo Faletti (1557) und die Nutricia des Angelo Poliziano / PATRYK M. RYCZKOWSKI, Paraphrasis historiae de Susanna by Adamus Placotomus Silesius and the ‘raptularius’ (notebook) of Mikolaj Lubomirski / ROLAND SAUER, Vitae Melissi. Die frühen Lebensbeschreibungen des Paulus Schedius Melissus / FLORIAN SCHAFFENRATH, Das Lob Venedigs und seiner Krieger: Francesco Modestis Venetias (1521) / RAPHAEL SCHWITTER, „I, liber, in tenebras!“ Zur antiislamischen Versinvektive des Martin Le Franc und einem neuen Textzeugen der Errores legis Mahumeti des Juan de Segovia in BnF, Ms. lat. 3669 / GÁBOR TÜSKÉS, The Re-Evaluation of Ferenc Rákóczi II’s Confessio peccatoris II. Investigandarum rerum prospectus REINHOLD F. GLEI, Neulateinische Forschungsprojekte / PATRYK M. RYCZKOWSKI, Caelestis Hierusalem Cives. The Role and Function of the Latin Hagiographic Epic in Early Modern Saint-Making: An Introduction to a New Research Project III. Librorum existimationes Oleg Nikitinski, Lateinische Musterprosa und Sprachpflege der Neuzeit. (17. – Anfang des 19. Jhs.). Ein Wörterbuch (ALEXANDER WINKLER) / André Schnyder (Hrsg.), Maria die Himmels-Thür. Ein anonymes Theophilus-Drama 1655 bei den Straubinger Jesuiten aufgeführt (STEFAN ELIT) / Craig Kallendorf, Printing Virgil. The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance (MARIJKE CRAB) / André Delvaux, Barthélemy Latomus, pédagogue et conseiller humaniste (FRANCIS GOYET) / Wilhelm Kühlmann (Hrsg.), Prata Florida. Neue Studien anlässlich des dreißigjährigen Bestehens der Heidelberger Sodalitas Neolatina (NIKLAS GUTT) / François Goyet / Delphine Denis (éd.), Joseph de Jouvancy : L’élève de rhétorique (CHRISTOPHE MARINHEIRO) / Han Lamers / Bettina Reitz-Joosse / Valerio Sanzotta (ed.), Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism (ROBERT SEIDEL) IV. Quaestiones recentissimae WALTHER LUDWIG, Die Klage der Latrine von Carolus Liebardus Langmarcaeus und das Erasmische Lob der Torheit

Book The Martyred Inquisitor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Prudlo
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780754662563
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Martyred Inquisitor written by Donald Prudlo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Martyr was one of the central Dominican saints of the thirteenth century, in some cases eclipsing Dominic himself. This monograph investigates the life and death of Peter of Verona and the cult of Peter Martyr, thereby filling a very important gap in both thirteenth century hagiographical studies, and studies of the interrelationship of heresy and imperial politics in the mid-thirteenth century.

Book Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe

Download or read book Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe written by Nathan J. Ristuccia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly paradigms for Christianization around the development of mandatory rituals. One prominent ritual, Rogationtide supplies an ideal case study demonstrating a new paradigm of "Christianization without religion." Christianization in the Middle Ages was not a slow process through which a Christian system of religious beliefs and practices replaced an earlier pagan system. In the Middle Ages, religion did not exist in the sense of a fixed system of belief bounded off from other spheres of life. Rather, Christianization was primarily ritual performance. Being a Christian meant joining a local church community. After the fall of Rome, mandatory rituals such as Rogationtide arose to separate a Christian commonwealth from the pagans, heretics, and Jews outside it. A Latin West between the polis and the parish had its own institution-the Rogation procession-for organizing local communities. For medieval people, sectarian borders were often flexible and rituals served to demarcate these borders. Rogationtide is an ideal case study of this demarcation, because it was an emotionally powerful feast, which combined pageantry with doctrinal instruction, community formation, social ranking, devotional exercises, and bodily mortification. As a result, rival groups quarrelled over the holiday's meaning and procedure, sometimes violently, in order to reshape the local order and ban people and practices as non-Christian.

Book The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena

Download or read book The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena written by Gerald Parsons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. Gerald Parsons argues that the cult of Catherine of Siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving sequence of civil religious rituals and meanings. He shows how the cult of this particular saint developed, firstly, as an expression of Sienese civil religion; secondly, as a focus for Italian civil religion; and finally into an expression of European civil religion. Instead of the predominantly devotional - and frequently essentially hagiographical - approach of much of the literature on Catherine of Siena, Parsons examines the significance of her cult from the perspective of civil religion and the social history of religion.

Book From Muslim to Christian Granada

Download or read book From Muslim to Christian Granada written by A. Katie Harris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2010 Best First Book, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city’s first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos, and the human remains accompanying them as proof that their city—best known as the last outpost of Spanish Islam—was in truth Iberia’s most ancient Christian settlement. Critics, however, pointed to the documents’ questionable doctrinal content and historical anachronisms. In 1682, the pope condemned the plomos as forgeries. From Muslim to Christian Granada explores how the people of Granada created a new civic identity around these famous forgeries. Through an analysis of the sermons, ceremonies, histories, maps, and devotions that developed around the plomos, it examines the symbolic and mythological aspects of a new historical terrain upon which Granadinos located themselves and their city. Discussing the ways in which one local community’s collective identity was constructed and maintained, this work complements ongoing scholarship concerning the development of communal identities in modern Europe. Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History  1350 1750

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History 1350 1750 written by Hamish M. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

Book Europe and the Middle Ages

Download or read book Europe and the Middle Ages written by Edward Peters and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one/two-semester undergraduate courses in Medieval History. This comprehensive, well-balanced historical survey of Medieval Europe--from Roman imperial provinces to the Renaissance--covers all aspects of the history (political, literary, religious, intellectual, etc.) with a focus on social and political themes. It presents a complete picture of the complex process by which an ecumenical civilization that once ringed the basin of the Mediterranean Sea, evolved into three other distinctive civilizations--Latin Europe, Greek Eastern Europe and Asia Minor, and Islam. This text differs from others on the subject in that it attempts to abolish traditional clichés regarding the Middle Ages and promotes critical thinking about our own time and society.