Saints, infirmity, and community in the late Middle Ages /
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 med...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2020]
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| Serier: | Premodern health, disease and disability ;
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks |