| Title: |
Devotion to Saints as Medieval Death Anxiety Management |
| Authors: |
NISSI, JYRKI; TESTONI, INES |
| Contributors: |
Nissi, Jyrki; Testoni, Ines |
| Publisher Information: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Padua Research Archive (IRIS - Università degli Studi di Padova) |
| Description: |
This article examines the fear of death in fourteenth-century Italy by analysing miracle testimonies through the methodological frameworks of terror management theory (TMT) and lived religion. It argues that devotion to saints served as a key coping mechanism for existential anxiety. Examples from the canonisation processes of Clare of Montefalco and Nicholas of Tolentino reveal how individuals turned to saints for protection, seeking to prolong life rather than accept death. This study provides both empirical and methodological insights into the medieval fear of death, illustrating its parallels with contemporary experiences of death anxiety. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:001561041400001; firstpage:1; lastpage:24; numberofpages:24; journal:THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY; https://hdl.handle.net/11577/3560723 |
| DOI: |
10.1017/s002204692510119x |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11577/3560723; https://doi.org/10.1017/s002204692510119x |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; license:Creative commons ; license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.72EEF811 |
| Database: |
BASE |