Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England: New Directions - Couverture rigide

 
9782503588513: Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England: New Directions
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 2503588514 ISBN 13 : 9782503588513
Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2022

Synopsis

This volume fills an important gap in the study of medieval English sanctity. Focused on the period 1150-1550, it examines later manifestations of pre-conquest northern English cults (John of Beverley, Oswald, Hilda, Aetheldreda etc.), and the establishment and development of many more during the twelfth to fifteenth centuries (Godric of Finchale, Robert of Knaresborough, Oswine of Tynemouth, Aebbe of Coldingham, Bega of Copeland, William of York, etc.). It showcases the diversity of new northern cults that emerged after 1150, and pays particular attention to cultures of episcopal and eremitic devotion and hagiographic production in Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lincolnshire. Divided into five subsections, the volume opens by exploring the relation of sanctity to constructions of northern identity through targeted examinations of northern textual and material cultures. It then turns to a series of case studies of northern saints' cults, grouped with reference to the eremitic life, female networks and locations, and the contextualisation of northern sanctity within national, transnational and post-medieval currents of veneration. Underlying all these essays is a concern with the conflicted idea of 'northernness'. This collection argues for a northern sanctity that is imagined in varying ways by different communities (monastic, diocesan, national etc.), allied to a series of conceptual 'norths' that differ significantly in accordance with the bodies of evidence under survey.

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Éditeur
Brepols N.V.
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2503588514
ISBN 13 
9782503588513
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
456
Éditeur
Whitehead Christiania, Blair Hazel, Renevey Denis
Coordonnées du fabricant
brepols
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