Saints, infirmity, and community in the late Middle Ages / Jenni Kuuliala.

Kuuliala, Jenni,
Saints, infirmity, and community in the late Middle Ages
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ISBN
9781040799260 ePub ebook
1040799264 ePub ebook
9781003703242 (electronic bk.)
1003703240 (electronic bk.)
9781040793473 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040793479 (electronic bk. : PDF)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Routledge, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (236 pages).
Dizi
Premodern health, disease, and disability
Genel Not
First published in 2020 by Amsterdam University Press Ltd.
Özet, vb.
Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages 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 - or dis/ability - in general.
Konu
Christian saints __ History __ To 1500.
Communities __ Religious aspects __ Christianity
Disabilities __ Religious aspects __ Christianity.
Diseases __ Religious aspects __ Christianity.
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