Symbolic identity and the cultural memory of saints

Titel: Symbolic identity and the cultural memory of saints / edited by Nils Holger Petersen, Anu Mänd, Sebastián Salvadó and Tracey R. Sands
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Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
Umfang: xi, 314 Seiten ; 22 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781527510920 ; 1527510921
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. vii
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. viii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Chapter 1
  • Saints' Cults in Medieval Central Europe: Rivalries and Alliances
  • p. 21
  • Chapter 2
  • Images of Saints in Medieval and Early Modem Central Europe: Communicators of Region and Community
  • p. 42
  • Chapter 3
  • Martyrs of "Our" Faith: Identity and the Cult of Saints in Post-Hussite Bohemia
  • p. 59
  • Chapter 4
  • Livonia-a Region without Local Saints?
  • p. 91
  • Chapter 5
  • Regional and Trans-regional Traditions in Saints' Cults: A Dominican Calendar from Late Medieval Tallinn
  • p. 123
  • Chapter 6
  • Saints, their Societies and their Chants: Corporate Identity and its Representation in Medieval Saints' Offices ("historiae")
  • p. 145
  • Chapter 7
  • Christian Militancy in the Liturgy for Sainted Kings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
  • p. 167
  • Chapter 8
  • Saints and the Politics of Gotlandic Identities
  • p. 189
  • Chapter 9
  • One of Us: Local Danish Saints
  • p. 220
  • Bibliography
  • p. 247
  • Contributors
  • p. 299
  • Index
  • p. 302