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Le tombeau de saint Martin de Tours.
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Year: 1922 Publisher: Paris : E. Champion; Tours, L. Péricat,

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Saint-Martin de Tours
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Year: 1933 Publisher: [Paris] : Flammarion,

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Victor Laloux : son oeuvre tourangelle
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ISBN: 9782813810014 2813810010 Year: 2016 Publisher: Tours : Editions Sutton,

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Architecte emblématique de la ville de Tours, Victor Laloux (1850-1937) réalise les trois édifices monumentaux symbolisant l'entrée de la cité dans le XXe siècle : la gare, l'hôtel de ville et la basilique Saint-Martin. Professeur influent et respecté, il est l'un des derniers représentants de l'académisme triomphant dont témoignent ses édifices grandioses aux décors opulents. Quarante-cinq ans après le sauvetage in extremis de la gare d'Orsay alors menacée de destruction, l'oeuvre de Victor Laloux, architecte à l'importance admise par tous les historiens, demeure paradoxalement encore méconnue. Quatre historiens de l'art reviennent, dans cet ouvrage, sur le parcours du saint patron des architectes tourangeaux, dont l'esprit est perceptible, dans sa ville, bien au-delà de ses trois réalisations majeures.


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Documents comptables de Saint-Martin de Tours a l'époque mérovingienne
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ISBN: 2717712763 9782717712766 Year: 1975 Publisher: Paris Bibliothèque Nationale


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Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours
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ISBN: 0801423910 9780801423918 1501740598 1501740601 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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Sharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communities-the town of Tours, the basilica of Saint-Martin there, and the abbey of Marmoutier nearby-all defined themselves through the cult of Saint Martin. She demonstrates how in the early Middle Ages the bishops of Tours used the cult of Martin, their fourthcentury predecessor, to shape an idealized image of Tours as Martin's town. As the heirs to Martin's see, the bishops projected themselves as the rightful leaders of the community. However, in the late eleventh century, she shows, the canons of Saint-Martin (where the saint's relics resided) and the monks of Marmoutier (which Martin had founded) took control of the cult and produced new legends and rituals to strengthen their corporate interests. Since the basilica and the abbey differed in their spiritualities, structures, and external ties, the canons and monks elaborated and manipulated Martin's cult in quite different ways. Farmer shows how one saint's cult lent itself to these varying uses, and analyzes the strikingly dissimilar Martins that emerged. Her skillful inquiry into the relationship between group identity and cultural expression illuminates the degree to which culture is contested territory. Farmer's rich blend of social history and hagiography will appeal to a wide range of medievalists, cultural anthropologists, religious historians, and urban historians.

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