Why can the dead do such great things? : saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation

Robert Bartlett

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Main Author: Bartlett, Robert, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
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Physical Description:xviii, 787 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map ; 25 cm
ISBN(s):9780691159133 : hardback
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245 1 0 |a Why can the dead do such great things? :  |b saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation /  |c Robert Bartlett. 
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505 0 0 |t List of Illustrations --  |t Preface --  |g Part I.  |t Developments --  |g Chapter 1.  |t Origins (100-500) --  |t The Martyrs --  |t The Religious Revolution of the Fourth Century --  |t Translations --  |t Rituals of Commemoration and Invocation --  |t Confessor Saints --  |t The Birth of Hagiography --  |t The First Miracle Books --  |g Chapter 2.  |t The Early Middle Ages (500-1000) --  |t The View from the 590s --  |t Gregory the Great --  |t The Benedictine Centuries --  |t New Christendoms: Eastern and Northern Europe --  |g Chapter 3.  |t The High and Later Middle Ages (1000-1500) --  |t Papal Canonization --  |t Mendicant Saints --  |t Lay Female Saints --  |t New Devotions --  |g Chapter 4.  |t The Protestant Reformation --  |g Part II.  |t Dynamics --  |g Chapter 5.  |t The Nature of Cult --  |t Name, Body, Text --  |t Patronage and Invocation: The Mutual Relationship --  |g Chapter 6.  |t Saints' Days --  |t Liturgy --  |t The Hierarchy of Feast-days --  |t Saints' Days and Local Identity --  |t Holy Days and Holidays --  |g Chapter 7.  |t Types of Saint --  |t Counting Saints --  |t Categorizing Saints --  |t Saints as Patrons --  |g Chapter 8.  |t Relics and Shrines --  |t Body Parts --  |t Contact Relics --  |t The Shrine in the Church --  |t Running a Shrine --  |t Reliquaries --  |t Relic Collections --  |t Relics in Movement --  |t Relics in Law and War --  |t Relics in Dispute --  |g Chapter 9.  |t Miracles --  |t Meaning of Miracle --  |t Patterns of Miracles --  |t Healing Miracles --  |t Miracles of Provision --  |t Visions, Prophecy, and Rapture --  |t Saints in War --  |t Saints and Demons --  |t Saints and Animals --  |t Liberation --  |t Punitive Miracles --  |g Chapter 10.  |t Pilgrimage --  |t Origins and Definitions --  |t Pilgrim Garb and Status --  |t Motives --  |t Shrines of Medieval Christendom --  |t Logistics --  |t Pilgrim Guides and Pilgrim Badges --  |g Chapter 11.  |t Dedications and Naming --  |t Dedication of Churches and Altars --  |t Place Names --  |t Personal Names --  |g Chapter 12.  |t Images of the Saints --  |t The Image in Early Christianity --  |t Byzantine Iconoclasm --  |t Images in the Medieval West --  |g Chapter 13.  |t The Literature of Sanctity --  |t Types of Hagiography --  |t Reasons for Writing --  |t The Hagiographers --  |t The Life --  |t Legendaries --  |t Miracle Books --  |t Sermons --  |t The Literature of Canonization Proceedings --  |t Vernacular Hagiography --  |g Chapter 14.  |t Doubt and Dissent --  |t Early Polemics --  |t Western Heretics --  |t Sceptics and Scoffers --  |t Policing the Saints --  |g Chapter 15.  |t Reflections --  |t Saints and Gods --  |t Saints and Nature --  |t Saints and the Dead --  |t Tomb-shrines in Judaism and Islam --  |t Saints and Ancestors --  |t Comparisons and Conclusions --  |t Glossary --  |t Bibliography of Works Cited --  |t Index. 
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