Why can the dead do such great things? : saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation / Robert Bartlett.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Description: xviii, 787 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691159133
  • 0691159130
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 162.3 .B37 2013
Contents:
Part I. Developments. Origins (100-500) -- The early Middle Ages (500-1000) -- The high and later Middle Ages (1000-1500) -- The Protestant Reformation -- part II. Dynamics. The nature of cult -- Saints' days -- Types of saint -- Relics and shrines -- Miracles -- Pilgrimage -- Dedications and naming -- Images of the saints -- The literature of sanctity -- Doubt and dissent -- Reflections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-733) and index.

Part I. Developments. Origins (100-500) -- The early Middle Ages (500-1000) -- The high and later Middle Ages (1000-1500) -- The Protestant Reformation -- part II. Dynamics. The nature of cult -- Saints' days -- Types of saint -- Relics and shrines -- Miracles -- Pilgrimage -- Dedications and naming -- Images of the saints -- The literature of sanctity -- Doubt and dissent -- Reflections.

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