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Author : Gábor Klaniczay
Release : 2002-03-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses by : Gábor Klaniczay
Download or read book Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses written by Gábor Klaniczay. This book was released on 2002-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of medieval Hungarian and central European royal saints.
Author : KLANICZAY GÁBOR.
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Book Synopsis Holy rulers and blessed princesses. Dynastic cults in medieval Central Europe by : KLANICZAY GÁBOR.
Download or read book Holy rulers and blessed princesses. Dynastic cults in medieval Central Europe written by KLANICZAY GÁBOR.. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmen Florea
Release : 2021-11-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints by : Carmen Florea
Download or read book The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints written by Carmen Florea. This book was released on 2021-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that explores the nature of sainthood in a region at the margins of medieval Latin Christendom. Defining the model of sanctity that characterized Transylvania between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the study considers how the cults of saints functioned within specific local social and cultural contexts. Analyzing case studies from a multi-ethnic region influenced by both the Latin and Eastern Christian traditions, this book provides a close reading of little-surveyed primary sources and offers a comprehensive understanding of sainthood in Transylvania, enhancing the broader study of medieval saints’ cults and their relationship to social power structures. It will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religion, researchers in medieval studies, and religious studies scholars engaged in comparative research.
Author : Zecevic
Release : 2022
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 718/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe by : Zecevic
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe written by Zecevic. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural history of medieval Central Europe (c. 800-1600 CE), a region long considered a "forgotten" area of the European past. The 25 cutting-edge chapters present up-to-date research about the region's core medieval kingdoms -- Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia -- and their dynamic interactions with neighboring areas. From the Baltic to the Adriatic, the handbook includes reflections on modern conceptions and uses of the region's shared medieval traditions. The volume's thematic organization reveals rarely compared knowledge about the region's medieval resources: its peoples and structures of power; its social life and economy; its religion and culture; and images of its past.
Author : Karina Marie Ash
Release : 2016-05-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature by : Karina Marie Ash
Download or read book Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature written by Karina Marie Ash. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for the laity is particularly expressed in the German versions of Latin and French narratives. Using thirteenth-century penitentials, monastic exempla, and sermons, Karina Marie Ash clarifies how secular wifehood was recast as a quasi-religious role and, in German epics and romances from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, how female characters are adapted to promote the salvific nature of worldly love in ways that echo the pastoral reevaluation of women at that time. Then she argues that mid and late thirteenth-century German literature not only reflects this impulse to idealize women's roles in lay society but also to promote an alternative model of femininity that deploys ways of privileging secular roles for women over religious ones. These continuously evolving readaptations of female protagonists across cultures and across centuries reflect fictive solutions for real historical concerns about women that not only complement contemporary pastoral and legal reforms but are also unique to medieval German literature.
