Citizen Saints

Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226157443

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Citizen-Saints by Julia Reinhard Lupton Pdf

Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas, Shylock, Othello, Caliban, Isabella, and Samson, the citizen-saint is a sacrificial figure: a model of moral and aesthetic extremity who inspires new regimes of citizenship with his or her death and martyrdom. Among the many questions Julia Reinhard Lupton attempts to answer under the rubric of the citizen-saint are: how did states of emergency, acts of sovereign exception, and Messianic anticipations lead to new forms of religious and political law? What styles of universality were implied by the abject state of the pure creature, at sea in a creation abandoned by its creator? And how did circumcision operate as both a marker of ethnicity and a means of conversion and civic naturalization? Written with clarity and grace, Citizen-Saints will be of enormous interest to students of English literature, religion, and early modern culture.

Author : James V Canfield Ph D
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466968479

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The Five American Citizen Saints by James V Canfield Ph D Pdf

Catholics have a special reverence for those canonized as saints by the pope. We believe they were holy people, and on their death they were with God. Catholics pray to saints for their intercession with God to grant special requests. The four saints whose lives are briefly described in this book share a very unique relationship. They are the only saints who lived and died as American or United States citizens.

Author : Els Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485619

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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 by Els Rose Pdf

Author : Gina M. Di Salvo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192689962

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The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform by Gina M. Di Salvo Pdf

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide, The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a tenth-century monastery to the Restoration stage. Through a reassessment of archival records of performance and religious change, this book challenges the established history of the saint play as a product of medieval devotional culture that ended with the national conversion to Protestantism during the Reformation. Not only did saints in performance frequently diverge from the narratives of devotional literature during the Middle Ages but also saints made a spectacular reappearance in the theatre of the early modern era. In the rupture between those two eras, the English church separated itself from the Cult of the Saints, and saints disappeared from public view until sainthood transformed from a matter of theology into a matter of theatricality. Early modern saint plays document a post-Reformation culture committed to saints—but not all saints. Certain ancient martyrs and British saints returned to the liturgical calendar in the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer. This limited inventory performed an initial de-Catholicization of these saints, but it did not recover their lives. Instead, the theatre produced new lives of the saints for the English public. A period of experimentation with saints and devils in the 1590s was followed by unprecedented innovation throughout the Stuart era. This book traces the transformation of sainthood in early modern drama from ambiguous supernatural association and negotiated patronage to a renaissance of miraculous theatricality and sacred place-making. By excavating saints in plays by Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, Massinger, and Rowley, as well as plays authored by relatively unknown dramatists, this book reconfigures how we think about the legacy of late medieval religious culture, the impact of Reformation change on literary texts and social practices, and the development of English theatre and drama.

Author : Susan Zimmerman,Garrett Sullivan,Linda Neiberg
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838641237

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Shakespeare Studies by Susan Zimmerman,Garrett Sullivan,Linda Neiberg Pdf

Contains essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. This title features essays on Shakespeare's tragedies in the context of early modern cultural history. It also includes reviews that consider studies of such historical issues as gender and literacy, sexual practices, and England's cultural encounters with Italy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Mormons and Mormonism
ISBN : CHI:097922861

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The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen E. McCluskey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351103558

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New Saints in Late-Mediaeval Venice, 1200–1500 by Karen E. McCluskey Pdf

This book focuses on the comparatively unknown cults of new saints in late-mediaeval Venice. These new saints were near-contemporary citizens who were venerated by their compatriots without official sanction from the papacy. In doing so, the book uncovers a sub-culture of religious expression that has been overlooked in previous scholarship. The study highlights a myriad of hagiographical materials, both visual and textual, created to honour these new saints by members of four different Venetian communities: The Republican government; the monastic orders, mostly Benedictine; the mendicant orders; and local parishes. By scrutinising the hagiographic portraits described in painted vita panels, written vitae, passiones, votive images, sermons and sepulchre monuments, as well as archival and historical resources, the book identifies a specifically Venetian typology of sanctity tied to the idiosyncrasies of the city’s site and history. By focusing explicitly on local typological traits, the book produces an intimate and complex portrait of Venetian society and offers a framework for exploring the lived religious experience of late-mediaeval societies beyond the lagoon. As a result, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Venice, lived religion, hagiography, mediaeval history and visual culture.

Author : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : UGA:32108010378902

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The patron saints of Christendom by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Pdf

Author : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : HARVARD:FL21XS

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Patron saints, the Matyrs, the early bishops, the hermits, and the warrior saints of Christendom as represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Pdf

Author : Paul Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441151445

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Favourite Patron Saints by Paul Burns Pdf

This book is a selection of saints presented chronologically and as Patrons. The proportion of women to men is deliberately higher than usual and the aim is-in accordance with Pope John Paul's intentions-to produce a worldwide spread of saints. Lesser-known figures that did remarkable things feature amongst some of the best-known saints. Although legends are mentioned, in true Butler's tradition, emphasis is always on historical fact. Entries are limited to canonised saints. Emblems or attributes are described where relevant and there are touches of humour where appropriate. The short introduction concentrates on the historical development of canonisation and draws some social implications. At the head of each page the patronage of the saint in question is given: for example medicine, taking exams, music, hunting, architects, and blind people. There is a saint for almost every chosen path of life and human predicament. On each page there is a decoration or illustration. The book ends with a simple glossary.

Author : Alban Butler,Paul Burns
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814629032

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Butler's Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler,Paul Burns Pdf

"This is indeed true: if the saints and blesseds collected here share one overarching characteristic it is to have put their love of God to work for their fellow men and women as they saw fit - through austerity of life, contemplative prayer, or myriad embodiments of what we would now call social work. They are holy examples to us because they lived and died for others, for us."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Molly H. Bassett,Vincent W. Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317808732

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Sainthood and Race by Molly H. Bassett,Vincent W. Lloyd Pdf

In popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of sainthood, and opened new approaches to its study. What happens when the category of sainthood is interrogated and inflected by the problematic category of race? Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh explores this complicated relationship by examining two distinct characteristics of the saint’s body: the historicized, marked flesh and the universal, holy flesh. The essays in this volume comment on this tension between particularity and universality by combining both theoretical and ethnographic studies of saints and race across a wide range of subjects within the humanities. Additionally, the book’s group of emerging and established religion scholars enhances this discussion of sainthood and race by integrating topics such as gender, community, and colonialism across a variety of historical, geographical, and religious contexts. This volume raises provocative questions for scholars and students interested in the intersection of religion and race today.

Author : Carmen Florea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000460834

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The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints by Carmen Florea Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : PRNC:32101019282217

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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Mormons
ISBN : WISC:89067426361

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Saints Herald by Anonim Pdf