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Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: v. 7 (Arizona studies in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance) - Hardcover

Karant-Nunn, Susan C.

 
9782503513898: Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: v. 7 (Arizona studies in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance)

Synopsis

In the modern world, interest in religious devotion is as great as ever. This volume brings together the research of ten scholars into the diverse ways that Europeans expressed their quest for God over more than a millennium, from the formative centuries of Christianity up to the seventeenth century. Topics include women transvestite saints, Monophysite wall-paintings, Anglo-Saxon sainthood and painful martyrdom, Carmelite self-redefinition, the confident authorship of Gautier de Coinci and Matfre Ermengaud, competition between the bishop and a wandering preacher for popular favour in Le Mans, the contemplative philanthropies of the Poor Clares, Chester Nativity-cycle actors' masculinity, Jean Gerson's warm relations with his siblings, and George' Herbert's eucharistic feeling. The authors' profound familiarity with primary sources as well as the influence of current theory makes these essays vibrant and timely.

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Synopsis

Academics and three graduate students in the US, the UK, Denmark, and Germany first presented the ten articles of this volume at the annual conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Tempe (the year is not indicated). The treatment of popular and religious devotion is applied to a broad time frame, from early medieval

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