This book sets new questions and offers innovative models for exploring the economic and artistic formations and reformations of the cult of saints in Medieval Europe together with its underlying social and political dynamic. The author examines a spectrum of cultural practices through more than thirty illustrated cycles of saints' lives in a range of media, published together for the first time: painted manuscripts; silver, gold, and ivory reliquaries; bronze doors; and stained glass. These are set against the history of one monastery, Saint-Amand d'Elnone, where three distinct illustrated versions of its saint's life survive from a hundred-year period, each adapted to a phase within the changing political and economic fortunes of the abbey.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The chief value of this remarkable book is twofold: first, it contains valuable sources for the historian interested in economic, social, and artistic matters in Europe in the central Middle Ages; secondly, it is a fine example of method in the use of pictorial biography to help analyze historical conditions surrounding a cult. It would be churlish to ask for more." Benedicta Ward, Speculum
Book Description
This book sets new questions and offers innovative models for exploring the economic and artistic formations and reformations of the cult of saints in Medieval Europe together with its underlying social and political dynamic.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mystical Beauty and Spiritual Mayhem,
By saint eyebeat "eyebeat" (knoxville, tn United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations (Paperback)
This is a strikingly beautiful book that discusses the history of the cult of saints in Medieval Europe. In a largely illiterate world various saints were championed by their follwers largely through the use of visual media. This book brings together for the first time all of the medieval hoopla associated with this phenomenon in a fascinating and highly informative text. Like NFL fans today, fans of various saints carried on public campaigns cheering their favorite saint, collecting funds to purchase relics and displaying visual stories in public venues telling the miraculous story of their saintly guy or gal.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
Under Constantine a program of extravagant art and architecture helped transform popular, private, and modest tombs into hierarchic settings for imperial cults serving the new state-supported religion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manuscript sot, manuscript soo, pictorial hagiographies, lay provost, discordant audience, pictorial hagiography, architectural throne, hagiographical cycles, relic quests, blind idolater, relic journeys, punitive miracles, facing folio, metric life, preaching scenes, posthumous miracles, renewed cult, vir sanctus, invested bishop, frontal posture, cult development, new abbey church, garment folds, reliquary statue, pictorial cycles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monte Cassino, Saint Peter, Middle Ages, Pope Martin, Abbot Hugh, Charles the Bald, Saint Martin, Codex Benedictus, Saint Bertin, Saint Foy, British Library, King Dagobert, Saint Omer, Bernard of Angers, Gregory of Tours, Old Testament, Saint Eligius, Saint James, Saint Martial, Ark of the Covenant, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Saint Ghislain, All Saints, Edward the Confessor New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Under Constantine a program of extravagant art and architecture helped transform popular, private, and modest tombs into hierarchic settings for imperial cults serving the new state-supported religion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manuscript sot, manuscript soo, pictorial hagiographies, lay provost, discordant audience, pictorial hagiography, architectural throne, hagiographical cycles, relic quests, blind idolater, relic journeys, punitive miracles, facing folio, metric life, preaching scenes, posthumous miracles, renewed cult, vir sanctus, invested bishop, frontal posture, cult development, new abbey church, garment folds, reliquary statue, pictorial cycles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monte Cassino, Saint Peter, Middle Ages, Pope Martin, Abbot Hugh, Charles the Bald, Saint Martin, Codex Benedictus, Saint Bertin, Saint Foy, British Library, King Dagobert, Saint Omer, Bernard of Angers, Gregory of Tours, Old Testament, Saint Eligius, Saint James, Saint Martial, Ark of the Covenant, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Saint Ghislain, All Saints, Edward the Confessor New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 54
books:
See all 54 books this book cites
15
books
cite this book:
See all 15 books citing this book
- The Bayeux Tapestry by David M. Wilson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Making of Britain: Middle Ages (The making of Britain) by Lesley M. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A History of the Franks (Penguin Classics) by Gregory of Tours in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Furta Sacra by Patrick J. Geary on page 132, and Back Matter
See all 54 books this book cites
- A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion by Stephen Sharot in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Legends in Limestone: Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun by Linda Seidel in Back Matter
- Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West (International Library of Historical Studies) by Diana Webb in Back Matter
- Reconstructing Tradition: Advaita Acarya and Gaudiya Vaisnavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century by Rebecca Manring in Back Matter
- The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Folklore Studies in Translation) by Eli Yassif in Back Matter
See all 15 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
