Saints Infirmity And Community In The Late Middle Ages

Author : Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048533343

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Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages by Jenni Kuuliala Pdf

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Drawing on new work in medieval dis/ability studies, this book analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an individual saint's bodily ailment investigated in the inquests, and how did the witnesses (re)construct the saintly candidates' ailments? What meanings were given to infirmity when providing proofs for holiness? This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life. Furthermore, it analyses how the meanings given to saints' infirmities influenced and reflected society's attitudes towards bodily ailments in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Reading Medieval Sources
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004465405

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A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections by Anonim Pdf

A companion volume for the usage of medieval miracle collections as a source, offering versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and techniques of various types of miracle narratives, as well as fascinating case studies from across Europe.

Author : Tom Turpie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004298682

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Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Tom Turpie Pdf

In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explore devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages.

Author : John Henderson,Fredrika Jacobs,Jonathan K. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000220315

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Representing Infirmity by John Henderson,Fredrika Jacobs,Jonathan K. Nelson Pdf

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts. Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each chapter explores which infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. By exploring the works of artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this study considers the idealized body altered by diseases, including leprosy, plague, goitre, and cancer. In doing so, the relationship between medical treatment and the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures is also revealed. The broad chronological approach demonstrates how and why such representations change, both over time and across different forms of media. Collectively, the chapters explain how the development of knowledge of the workings and structure of the body was reflected in changed ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease. The interdisciplinary approach makes this study the perfect resource for both students and specialists of the history of art, medicine and religion, and social and intellectual history across Renaissance Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004458260

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Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture by Anonim Pdf

Kids Those Days is a collection of interdisciplinary research into medieval childhood. Contributors investigate abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children.

Author : Keri Watson,Timothy W. Hiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000553451

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The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability by Keri Watson,Timothy W. Hiles Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies.

Author : Enyegue, Jean Luc, SJ
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809187829

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Jesuit Ethos, The by Enyegue, Jean Luc, SJ Pdf

The Jesuit Ethos aims at revisiting important moments in Jesuit history from the margins, and in light of the current global challenges. It argues that by examining Jesuit history from the margins, one better appreciates this history as a spiritual journey, a constant quest for the unity of hearts and minds among the members. Their cultural and political origins, the diversity of their ministries, their apostolic dispersion amid the “First Globalization,” and constant assaults from declared enemies kept the Jesuits on the verge of implosion and immolation and made the unity among their members a matter of survival. By analyzing how the Jesuits exploited their diversity of cultures and politics to build a global ethos, and how this global organization was sustained for the last 500 years, relevant lessons can be learned to address the ongoing challenges of our global community. While speaking to a broader, global-oriented audience, such a history might be the first of such by an African (thus its originality), in a context of shifting demographics in the Church and Society of Jesus, and questions about the identity of its institution and mission.

Author : Lucy C. Barnhouse,Winston Black
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786156405821

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Beyond Cadfael by Lucy C. Barnhouse,Winston Black Pdf

Medievalism and medieval medicine are vibrant subfields of medieval studies, enjoying sustained scholarly attention and popularity among undergraduates. Popular perceptions of medieval medicine, however, remain understudied. This book aims to fill that lacuna by providing a multifaceted study of medical medievalism, defined as modern representations of medieval medicine intended for popular audiences. The volume takes as its starting point the fictional medieval detective Brother Cadfael, whose observations on bodies, herbs, and death have shaped many popular conceptions of medieval medicine in the Anglophone world. The ten contributing authors move beyond Cadfael by exploring global medical medievalisms in a range of genres and cultural contexts. Beyond Cadfael is organized into three sections, the first of which engages with how disease, injury, and the sick are imagined in fictitious medieval worlds. The second, on doctors at work, looks at medieval medical practice in novels, films and television, and public commemorative practice. These essays examine how practitioners are represented and imagined in medieval and pseudo-medieval worlds. The third section discusses medicine designed for and practiced by women in the Middle Ages and today, with a focus on East Asian medical traditions. These essays are guided by the recognition that medieval medical practices are often in dialogue with contemporary medical practices that fall outside the norms of Western biomedicine.

Author : Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317116943

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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala Pdf

This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to widen our understanding of how physical and mental well-being and weakness were understood and constructed in the longue durée from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The chapters are written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history and philology, and pay particular attention to the differences of experience due to gender, age and social status. The book opens with chapters on the more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability, moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and care.

Author : Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317116950

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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala Pdf

This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to widen our understanding of how physical and mental well-being and weakness were understood and constructed in the longue durée from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The chapters are written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history and philology, and pay particular attention to the differences of experience due to gender, age and social status. The book opens with chapters on the more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability, moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and care.

Author : Marcia H. Rioux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1801 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789811960567

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Handbook of Disability by Marcia H. Rioux Pdf

Author : Donald Weinstein,Rudolph M. Bell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226890579

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Saints and Society by Donald Weinstein,Rudolph M. Bell Pdf

In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell examine the lives of 864 saints who lived between 1000 and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity prevalent in late medieval and early modern Europe. They also provide a substantial body of information on the people among whom the saints lived and by whom they came to be venerated. In the first part, the authors give close consideration to what the saints' lives reveal about childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; the impact of religious inspiration upon family bonds; and family influences upon religious behavior. The second part provides a composite picture of piety and its changing configuration in Latin Christendom. With the assistance of statistical analysis, the authors answer questions involving the popular perception of holiness, social class, and gender.

Author : Anne B Thompson,Robert K Upchurch,E Gordon Whatley
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580444071

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Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections by Anne B Thompson,Robert K Upchurch,E Gordon Whatley Pdf

This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is intended to be broadly representative of saints' lives in Middle English and of the classic types of hagiographic legend as these were presented to the lay public and less-literate clergy of late medieval England.

Author : Alicia Spencer-Hall
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048532179

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Medieval Saints and Modern Screens by Alicia Spencer-Hall Pdf

This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.

Author : CRISTINA BOGDAN,SILVIA MARIN BARUTCIEFF
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786061612628

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REGARDER LA MORT EN FACE by CRISTINA BOGDAN,SILVIA MARIN BARUTCIEFF Pdf

Death is equally frightening and fascinating. As we ignore much about it, try as we might to inquire into it, we surround it with a plethora of images and texts, geared either towards dissimulating and transforming it, or towards making it more accessible and acceptable.