Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? (eBook)

Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

Robert Bartlett (Autor)

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2013
808 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4878-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the ReformationFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints-the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bartlett examines all of the most important aspects of the saints-including miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in the calendar, literature, and art.The book explores the central role played by the bodies and body parts of saints, and the special treatment these relics received. From the routes, dangers, and rewards of pilgrimage, to the saints' impact on everyday life, Bartlett's account is an unmatched examination of an important and intriguing part of the religious life of the past-as well as the present.

Autor

Robert Bartlett is professor of mediaeval history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 10 color illus. 23 halftones. 3 line illus. 10 tables. 3 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Altarpiece • Anglo-Saxons • Anthony the Great • Archbishop of Canterbury • Asceticism • Basilica • Benedict of Nursia • Bernard Gui • book of hours • Brigid • burial • Calendar of saints • Canonization • Cathedral • Christendom • Christian • Christian Church • Christianity • Christian martyrs • Christian monasticism • Church Fathers • Church Service • Cistercians • Clergy • confessor • Cuthbert • Diocese • Early Middle Ages • Eastern Christianity • Edmund the Martyr • edward the confessor • Ephesus • Ex-voto • Franciscans • friar • God • Gregory of Nyssa • Gregory of Tours • Hagiography • Heresy • Iconoclasm • Illustration • incorruptibility • indulgence • Intercession • Jews • John Chrysostom • John the Baptist • John the Evangelist • Late Antiquity • Late Middle Ages • Litany • Literature • martyr • Martyrology • Mary, mother of Jesus • Middle Ages • Monastery • Monasticism • New Martyr • New Testament • Old Testament • Order of Saint Benedict • Ordination • Paganism • Parchment • Parish Church • patron saint • Perpetua and Felicity • Persecution • Peter and Paul • Pilgrim badge • Pope • Pope Gregory I • Pope Innocent III • procession • Protestantism • Prudentius • Relic • Religion • reliquary • Rocamadour • Saint • Saint Boniface • Saint Dominic • Saint's name • Sermon • solemnity • Sulpicius Severus • the monastery • Theology • Thomas Aquinas • Thomas Becket • Thomas de Cantilupe • Tours • treatise • veneration • vestment • Western Europe • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4878-4 / 1400848784
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4878-2 / 9781400848782