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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Päätekijä: Kuuliala, Jenni (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Licensed eBooks
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2020]
Sarja:Premodern health, disease and disability ; 4.
Linkit:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks
Sisällysluettelo:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Infirmitas Leading to Saintly Life
  • Patientia and the Borders of Holy Infirmity
  • Abstinence, Devotional Practices, and Social Control
  • Holy Infirmity and the Devotees
  • Conclusions Infirmity, Community, and Canonization
  • Bibliography
  • Index