A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes : New Contexts, Perspectives, and Comparisons /
Canonizations, which officially proclaimed a person's sanctity, were complex, embracing theological, judicial, social, and cultural aspects of medieval Christianity. The dossiers manifest the theological ponderings while also revealing the devotional practices, daily life, and troubles of those...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ;
109.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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Call Number: D410
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on the Editor and Contributors
- Introduction: Canonization Processes in Context and Comparison
- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
- 1 The Papacy on the Canonization of Saints: between Appropriation, Regulation, and Disinterest
- Christian Krötzl
- 2 God's Ordinary and Extraordinary Speech: the Determination of Miracles by the Roman Congregation of Rites in the Early Modern Era
- Maria Teresa Fattori
- 3 Transforming an Individual into a Saint and an Accused into a Criminal
- Judicial Procedure in Canonization Processes and libri maleficiorum of Italian Communes at the End of the Middle Ages
- Didier Lett
- 4 The Construction of Information in the Records of Medieval Canonization and Heresy Inquests: a Methodological Comparison
- Saku Pihko
- 5 Testimonies of the Life of the Saint in the Context of Canonization
- Jenni Kuuliala
- 6 Safe and Dangerous Names: Uncovering Connections and Boundaries in the Canonization Inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, 1363
- Nicole Archambeau
- 7 Disability, Miracle, and Sainthood in Early Fourteenth-Century Canonization Dossiers
- Adelheid Russenberger
- 8 "Are You Content to Die?" Death Acceptance and Death Denial in Depositions of Canonization Processes
- Jyrki Nissi
- 9 Writing Microhistory from the Canonizations of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer
- Laura Ackerman Smoller
- 10 Experiencing the Miraculous: Lived Religion in the Depositions
- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
- 11 Scent, Sight, Awe: Examining the Bodily Signs of Sainthood in the Canonization Processes of Dominican Saints
- Marika Räsänen
- 12 Canonizations and Jesuit Saints: the Lives and Images amid the Causes for Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier
- Jonathan Greenwood
- Bibliography
- Index.