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Why can the dead do such great things ? Saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the reformation
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ISBN: 9780691159133 0691159130 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton University Press

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From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints--the holy dead. This sweepingly ambitious history from one of the world's leading medieval historians 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. Drawing on sources from around the Christian world, 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. As this engaging narrative shows, a wide variety of figures have been venerated as saints: men and women, kings and servant girls, legendary virgins and highly political bishops--and one dog. The book explores the central role played by the bodies and body parts of saints, and the special treatment these relics received: how they were treasured and enshrined, used in war and peace, and faked and traded. The shrines of the saints drew pilgrims, sometimes from hundreds of miles, and the book describes the routes, dangers, and rewards of pilgrimage, including the thousands of reported miracles. The book surveys the rich literature and images that proliferated around the saints, as well as the saints' impact on everyday life--from the naming of people and places to the shaping of the calendar. Finally, the book considers how the Christian cult of saints compares with apparently similar aspects of other religions.


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Medieval panorama
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ISBN: 0500237867 9780500237861 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson


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The making of Europe: conquest, colonization and cultural change, 950-1350
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ISBN: 0713990740 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Allen Lane

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Geoffrey of Burton : life and miracles of St Modwenna
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ISBN: 0198206062 9780198206064 Year: 2002 Volume: *35 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press


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The natural and the supernatural in the Middle Ages : the Wiles lecture given at the Queen's University of Belfast, 2006
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ISBN: 9780521878326 0521878322 9780521702553 0521702550 Year: 2008 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural and showing how the idea of the supernatural came to be invented in the Middle Ages. Robert Bartlett examines how theologians and others sought to draw lines between the natural, the miraculous, the marvelous and the monstrous, and the many conceptual problems they encountered as they did so. The final chapter explores the extraordinary thought-world of Roger Bacon as a case study exemplifying these issues. By recovering the mentalities of medieval writers and thinkers the book raises the critical question of how we deal with beliefs we no longer share.


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Gerald of Wales 1146-1223
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ISBN: 0198218923 9780198218920 Year: 1982 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The Hanged Man : A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0691117195 1400849063 9780691117195 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe. The Hanged Man tells the story of this putative miracle--why it happened, what it meant, and how we know about it. The nine eyewitness accounts live on in the transcripts of de Cantilupe's canonization hearings, and these previously unexamined documents contribute not only to an enthralling mystery, but to an unprecedented glimpse into the day-to-day workings of medieval society. While unraveling the haunting tale of the hanged man, Robert Bartlett leads us deeply into the world of lords, rebels, churchmen, papal inquisitors, and other individuals living at the time of conflict and conquest in Wales. In the process, he reconstructs voices that others have failed to find. We hear from the lady of the castle where the hanged man was imprisoned, the laborer who watched the execution, the French bishop charged with investigating the case, and scores of other members of the medieval citizenry. Brimming with the intrigue of a detective novel, The Hanged Man will appeal to both scholars of medieval history and general readers alike.


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Middeleeuws panorama
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ISBN: 9057642778 9789057642777 Year: 2002 Publisher: Kerkdriel Librero

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Ruim geïllustreerd overzicht van de geschiedenis van de middeleeuwen.


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The making of Europe : conquest, colonization and cultural change 950-1350
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ISBN: 069103298X 9780691032986 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,

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