TY  - GEN
T1  - Saints, infirmity, and community in the late Middle Ages
T2  - Premodern health, disease and disability ;
A1  - Kuuliala, Jenni
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1164698801
AB  - Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Drawing on new work in medieval dis/ability studies, this book 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 in general.
CN  - BL65.B63 K84 2020
SN  - 9789048533343
SN  - 9048533341
SN  - 9789462983373
KW  - Human body : Religious aspects.
KW  - Disability studies : Religious aspects.
KW  - Medicine : Religious aspects.
KW  - Christian saints : Diseases.
KW  - Suffering : Religious aspects : Christianity.
KW  - Medicine, Medieval.
KW  - Canonization : History : To 1500.
KW  - Christian saints : Cult.
KW  - Religion and Medicine
KW  - History, Medieval
KW  - Corps humain : Aspect religieux.
KW  - Études sur le handicap : Aspect religieux.
KW  - Médecine : Aspect religieux.
KW  - Saints chrétiens : Maladies.
KW  - Médecine médiévale.
KW  - Saints chrétiens : Culte.
KW  - Medieval history.
KW  - Social and cultural history.
KW  - History of religion.
KW  - Disability: social aspects.
KW  - History of medicine.
KW  - RELIGION : Christianity : Saints & Sainthood.
KW  - Canonization
KW  - Christian saints : Cult
KW  - Human body : Religious aspects
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Medicine : Religious aspects
KW  - Suffering : Religious aspects : Christianity
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Hagiography, canonization, sainthood, dis/ability.
KW  - History
ER  -