Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes
Author: Christian Krötzl
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9782503573144
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Gender, Miracles, and Daily Life
Author: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInteraction with the saints was central to the everyday life of medieval Christians. The process of praying to a heavenly intercessor not only involved private devotion but was also intrinsically connected with society at large. It required the individual to communicate and negotiate both with the saint and within a group of devotees, thereby exposing social processes such as community dynamics and the construction of gender. Considering these issues and others, Gender, Miracles, and Daily Life focuses on the depositions of the canonization processes of Thomas Cantilupe (1307) and Nicholas of Tolentino (1325). It explores how ordinary laypeople understood the daily responsibilities that determined their relationship to the saints and articulates how their shared narratives contributed to the rituals which surrounded a miracle. This material has been little explored by scholars, yet offers a vivid and colourful insight into the world of men and women in the fourteenth century.
A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-09-06
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9004468498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion volume for the usage of medieval miracle collections as a source, offering versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and techniques of various types of miracle narratives, as well as fascinating case studies from across Europe.
The Oldest Legend
Author: Ildikó Csepregi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2018-01-10
Total Pages: 854
ISBN-13: 9633862191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bilingual volume (Latin text with English translation) is the second in the series presenting hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. It contains the most important hagiographical corpus of medieval Hungarian history: that of Saint Margaret (1242–1270), daughter of King Béla IV, who lived her life as a Dominican nun. Margaret’s cult started immediately after her death and the demand to examine her sanctity was first formulated in 1272. The canonization process recommenced in 1276, followed by further initiatives across the centuries. Margaret was eventually canonized only in 1943. Besides the full Latin text and the English translation of her oldest legend, written between 1272 and 1275, this volume contains the acts of the 110 testimonies of the papal investigation concerning her sainthood, recorded between July and October 1276 and prepared from existing source editions. In addition, the editors include a series of recently discovered documents, including a petition by the bishop of Várad (Oradea) to promote the cause, and the notarial records of a set of miracles that occurred at Margaret's grave in the second half of the fifteenth century. The annotated bilingual text is complemented by a select bibliography on Saint Margaret and her hagiography.
Miracles and Wonders
Author: Michael Goodich
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780754658757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this absorbing book, Michael Goodich explores the changing perception of the miracle in medieval Western society. He employs a wealth of primary sources, including canonization dossiers, hagiographical texts, theological treatises and sermons, to examine the Christian church's desire to create a sounder legal definition of the miracle.
Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Andri Vauchez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780521619813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a standard work of reference for the study of the religious history of western Christianity in the later middle ages which, since its original publication in French in 1981, has come to be regarded as one of the great contributions to medieval studies of recent times. Hagiographical texts and reports of the processes of canonisation - a mode of investigation into saints' lives and their miracles implemented by the popes from the end of the twelfth century - are here used for the first time as major source materials. The book illuminates the main features of the medieval religious mind, and highlights the popes' attempts to gain firmer control over the wide variety of expressions of faith towards the saints in order to promote a higher pattern of devotion and moral behaviour among Christians.
Contested Canonizations
Author: Ronald C. Finucane
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2011-10-12
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0813218756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work, which forms an important bridge between medieval and Counter-Reformation sanctity and canonization, provides a richly contextualized analysis of the ways in which the last five candidates for sainthood before the Reformation came to be canonized.
Miracles and Wonders
Author: Michael E. Goodich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1351917293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in the late twelfth century, scholastic theologians such as William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas and Engelbert of Admont attempted to provide a rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles, bolstered by the Aristotelian theory of natural law. Similarly in this period a tension appeared to exist in the recording of miracles, between the desire to exalt the Faith and the need to guarantee believability in the face of opposition from heretics, Jews and other sceptics. As miracles became an increasingly standard part of evidence leading to canonization, the canon lawyers, notaries and theologians charged with determining the authenticity of miracles were eventually issued with a list of questions to which witnesses to the event were asked to respond, a virtual template against which any miracle could be measured. Michael Goodich explores this changing perception of the miracle in medieval Western society. He employs a wealth of primary sources, including canonization dossiers and contemporary hagiographical Vitae and miracle collections, philosophical/theological treatises, sermons, and canon law and ancillary sources dealing with the procedure of canonization. He compares and contrasts 'popular' and learned understanding of the miraculous and explores the relationship between reason and revelation in the medieval understanding of miracles. The desire to provide a more rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles is linked to the rise of heresy and other forms of disbelief, and finally the application of the rules of evidence in the examination of miracles in the central Middle Ages is scrutinized. This absorbing book will appeal to scholars working in the fields of medieval history, religious and ecclesiastical history, canon law, and all those with an interest in hagiography.
Medieval canonization processes
Author: Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher: Ecole Française de Rome
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLes procès de canonisation constituent une combinaison unique d’un mécanisme juridique et d’un culte religieux, où le premier est utilisé pour décider de l’authenticité et le sort du deuxième. Cette procédure est la création originale de la Chrétienté du Moyen Âge tardif. Les contributions dans le présent volume ont choisi d’explorer ce thème avec une approche comparatiste, dédiant une attention particulière à la Scandinavie et l’Europe Centrale, au sein des modèles mieux élaborés de l’évolution pluriséculaire des procès de canonisation en Italie et en France. Les contributeurs cherchent aussi à élaborer une nouvelle vision d’ensemble de l’évolution des procès de canonisation pendant le Moyen Âge. Élargissant la dimension chronologique habituelle des investigations historique en ce domaine, ils ajoutent quelques considérations sur les antécédents qui préparaient l’avènement des procès de canonisation, et proposent d’intégrer dans la vision de leur évolution historique l’ensemble des procès de canonisation du 15e siècle, en faisant état d’un véritable renouveau de ces procédures à la fin du Moyen Âge, et en jetant même un coup d’œil sur leur épanouissement plus tardif, au Temps Modernes.
Medical Miracles
Author: Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 019533650X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern culture tends to separate medicine and miracles, but their histories are closely intertwined. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes saints through canonization based on evidence that they worked miracles, as signs of their proximity to God. Physicianhistorian Jacalyn Duffin has examined Vatican sources on 1400 miracles from six continents and spanning four centuries. Overwhelmingly the miracles cited in canonizations between 1588 and 1999 are healings, and the majority entail medical care and physician testimony. These remarkable records contain intimate stories of illness, prayer, and treatment, as told by people who rarely leave traces: peasants and illiterates, men and women, old and young. A woman's breast tumor melts away; a man's wounds knit; a lame girl suddenly walks; a dead baby revives. Suspicious of wishful thinking or na ve enthusiasm, skeptical clergy shaped the inquiries to identify recoveries that remain unexplained by the best doctors of the era. The tales of healing are supplemented with substantial testimony from these physicians. Some elements of the miracles change through time. Duffin shows that doctors increase in number; new technologies are embraced quickly; diagnoses shift with altered capabilities. But other aspects of the miracles are stable. The narratives follow a dramatic structure, shaped by the formal questions asked of each witness and by perennial reactions to illness and healing. In this history, medicine and religion emerge as parallel endeavors aimed at deriving meaningful signs from particular instances of human distress -- signs to explain, alleviate, and console in confrontation with suffering and mortality. A lively, sweeping analysis of a fascinating set of records, this book also poses an exciting methodological challenge to historians: miracle stories are a vital source not only on the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people, but also on medical science and its practitioners.
