Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (7)

UCLouvain (6)

ULB (5)

KBR (3)

UGent (3)

UAntwerpen (2)

ULiège (2)

UNamur (2)

VUB (1)


Resource type

book (7)


Language

French (4)

English (3)


Year
From To Submit

2007 (2)

2004 (2)

2001 (1)

1990 (1)

1988 (1)

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by

Book
Saints de Provins et comtes de Champagne : essai sur l'imaginaire médiéval
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9782878253924 Year: 2007 Publisher: Langres Editions Dominique Guéniot

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Saints et saintes de France
Author:
ISBN: 2880030889 2218017180 9782218017186 9782880030889 Year: 1988 Publisher: [Paris]: Hatier,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Medieval saints in late nineteenth century French culture : eight essays
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0786417692 9780786417698 Year: 2004 Publisher: Jefferson: McFarland,


Book
Les clients des saints : maladie et quête du miracle à travers les procès de canonisation de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle en France
Author:
ISBN: 2728306818 9782728306817 Year: 2004 Volume: 338 Publisher: Rome: École française de Rome,

Hagiography & the cult of saints : the diocese of Orléans, 800-1200
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0521365007 0521023424 0511562454 0511875452 9780521365000 9780511562457 9780521023429 Year: 1990 Volume: 4th ser., 14 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the cult of saints. It examines the patrons of a single diocese, Orléans, because a saint's power of patronage was defined in terms of a particular locale. Beyond the documentation of this region's textual and institutional traditions, the book explores the uses made of sanctity and patronage by the Franks. These so-called 'fathers' protected monasteries against interference by ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Moreover, as inhabitants of God's court of heaven, these 'fathers' served monks and laypeople as intercessors with God in matters of sin and disease. Thus they provided, in the Orléanais and elsewhere, an important source of power and authority, as well as an aspect of Christian belief which was shared by clergy and laity.

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by