Saints and SanctityIn most of its forms, Christianity has been a religion focused on the salvation of individuals. This has meant that its churches have questioned what sort of people, and which specific persons, are saved; and so have tried to describe the qualities of such 'saints'. The debates involved have ranged through the outward signs of salvation, whether saints can be identified in this life or after their deaths, whether their often extraordinary lives should serve as examples for a wider Christian public, and whether saints have a power that they can exercise on their own initiative or are owed a particular devotion. This collection of essays provides a stimulating sample of recent historical research on Christianity's approach to these questions. It spans the earliest construction of personal sanctity in the Eastern and Western traditions, the 'golden age' of saintly cults in the medieval period, post-Reformation debates about the role of saints, and the meaning of canonization within a variety of churches in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It therefore provides insight into a key issue of Christian history which (as the later essays show) still has a huge influence on ecclesiastical practice and politics. PETER CLARKE is Reader in Medieval History at Southampton University. TONY CLAYDON is Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University. BR> Contributors: ROBERT ANDREWS, CLYDE BINFIELD, FRANS CIAPPARA, AUDE DE MEZERAC-ZANETTI, SOPHIA DEBOICK, BERNARD HAMILTON, MARGARET HARVEY, JOY HAWKINS, COLIN HAYDON, JOSEPHINE LAFFIN, PAK-WAH LAI, OLIVER LOGAN, ANDREW LOUTH, ELENA MARTIN, MAUREEN MILLER, GESINE OPPITZ-TROTMAN, ARIANA PATEY, PATRICK PRESTON, RICHARD PRICE, SAM RICHES, SALVADOR RYAN, SARAH SCUTTS, ROWAN STRONG, KATHARINE SYKES, ALAN THACKER, ALEXIS TORRANCE, PETER TURNER, CHRISTINE WALSH, MICHAEL WALSH, CORDELIA WARR, MARTIN WELLINGS, CHRIS WILSON |
Contents
Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church Presidential Address | 1 |
The Monk as Christian Saint and Exemplar in St John Chrysostoms Writings | 19 |
Augustine of Hippos Depictions of the Martyrs | 29 |
Hagiography and Autobiography in the Late Antique West | 41 |
Popes Patriarchs and Archbishops and the Origins of the Cult of the Martyrs in Northern Italy | 51 |
Repentance as the Context of Sainthood in the Ascetical Theology of Mark the Monk | 80 |
The Significance of St Cuthberts Vestments | 90 |
Why did the Crusader States produce so few Saints? | 103 |
Stigmatic Saints and Crises of Representation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy | 228 |
PrincelingJesuit and Model for Catholic Youth | 248 |
The Northern Saints after the Reformation in the Writings of Christopher Watson d 1580 | 258 |
Sainthood and Miracles in Robert Hegges History of St Cuthberts Churches at Lindisfarne Cuncacestre and Dunholme 1625 | 270 |
Simulated Sanctity in Seventeenth and EighteenthCentury Malta | 284 |
St Winifred Bishop Fleetwood and Jacobitism | 295 |
The Sanctity of William Stevens | 307 |
Henry Robert Reynolds 182596 | 318 |
Sanctity as a Form of Capital | 112 |
Exemplary Encounters with the Other | 125 |
Penance Mercy and Saintly Authority in the Miracles of St Thomas Becket | 136 |
Seeing the Light? Blindness and Sanctity in Later Medieval England | 148 |
The Vision of St Fursa in ThirteenthCentury Didactic Literature | 159 |
Gilbert of Tournai and Attitudes to Female Sanctity in the Thirteenth Century | 171 |
Liturgical Changes to the Cult of Saints under Henry VIII | 181 |
Early Martyrs and their Lives in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Irish Manuscript Tradition | 193 |
Two Ways of being a Saint in CounterReformation Italy | 208 |
Benjamin Gregorys Sidelights on Wesleyan Sanctity in the later Nineteenth Century | 334 |
Piety Prophecy and Politics in Late Imperial Russia | 346 |
Sanctity and Mission in the Life of Charles de Foucauld | 365 |
Céline Martins Images of Thérèse of Lisieux and the Creation of a Modern Saint | 376 |
The Diocese of Perth and the making of a Local Saint in 1984 | 390 |
A Saint for all Australians? | 403 |
Pope John Paul II and his Canonizations | 415 |
Backcover | 438 |
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