Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Kuuliala, Jenni

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9462983372 ISBN 13 : 9789462983373

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages 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 -- or dis/ability -- in general.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Jenni Kuuliala is a senior research fellow at the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University, working on illness, disability, and healing in the late medieval and early modern period.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9462983372
• ISBN 13: 9789462983373
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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