Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes
Author: Christian Krötzl
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9782503573144
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The Oldest Legend
Author: lldik¢ Csepregi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 857
ISBN-13: 9633862183
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 B‚la 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 V rad (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 book ends with a selected bibliography of Saint Margaret and of her hagiography.
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.
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.
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.
Certain Sainthood
Author: Donald S. Prudlo
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-03-21
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1501701525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe doctrine of papal infallibility is a central tenet of Roman Catholicism, and yet it is frequently misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Much of the present-day theological discussion points to the definition of papal infallibility made at Vatican I in 1870, but the origins of the debate are much older than that. In Certain Sainthood, Donald S. Prudlo traces this history back to the Middle Ages, to a time when Rome was struggling to extend the limits of papal authority over Western Christendom. Indeed, as he shows, the very notion of papal infallibility grew out of debates over the pope's authority to canonize saints.Prudlo's story begins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when Rome was increasingly focused on the fight against heresy. Toward this end the papacy enlisted the support of the young mendicant orders, specifically the Dominicans and Franciscans. As Prudlo shows, a key theme in the papacy's battle with heresy was control of canonization: heretical groups not only objected to the canonizing of specific saints, they challenged the concept of sainthood in general. In so doing they attacked the roots of papal authority. Eventually, with mendicant support, the very act of challenging a papally created saint was deemed heresy.Certain Sainthood draws on the insights of a new generation of scholarship that integrates both lived religion and intellectual history into the study of theology and canon law. The result is a work that will fascinate scholars and students of church history as well as a wider public interested in the evolution of one of the world’s most important religious institutions.
A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections
Author:
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.
Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics
Author: Janine Larmon Peterson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-12-15
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1501742353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority. Local and unsanctioned saints were spiritual and social fixtures in the towns of northern and central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In some cases, popes allowed these saints' cults; in others, church officials condemned the saint and/or their followers as heretics. Using a wide range of secular and clerical sources—including vitae, inquisitorial and canonization records, chronicles, and civic statutes—Peterson explores who these unofficial saints were, how the phenomenon of disputed sanctity arose, and why communities would be willing to risk punishment by continuing to venerate a local holy man or woman. She argues that the Church increasingly restricted sanctification in the later Middle Ages, which precipitated new debates over who had the authority to recognize sainthood and what evidence should be used to identify holiness and heterodoxy. The case studies she presents detail how the political climate of the Italian peninsula allowed Italian communities to use saints' cults as a tool to negotiate religious and political autonomy in opposition to growing papal bureaucratization. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
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.
Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789462983373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an individual saint's bodily ailment investigated in the inquests, and how did the witnesses (re)construct the saintly candidates' ailments? What meanings were given to infirmity when providing proofs for holiness? This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life. Furthermore, it analyses how the meanings given to saints' infirmities influenced and reflected society's attitudes towards bodily ailments -- or dis/ability -- in general.
