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Hagiography and Chronicles

  • János M. Bak
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Promoting the Saints
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© 2022, Central European University Press, Budapest, Hungary

© 2022, Central European University Press, Budapest, Hungary

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Abbreviations ix
  5. Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography 1
  6. Theological Self-Definition in Byzantine Miraculous Healing 17
  7. (Re)claiming Adalbert. Patristic Quotations and Their Function in Canaparius’ Vita S. Adalberti 31
  8. “Pull you Sons of Whores!” Linguistic Register and Reform in the Legend of St. Clement 41
  9. Hagiography and Chronicles 51
  10. Hagiography and Biography. The Case of St. Francis of Assisi 59
  11. Idolatry or Power. St. Francis in Front of the Sultan 69
  12. Blessed John the French, The First Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his Miracles 83
  13. Fama sanctitatis and the Emergence of St. Margaret’s Cult in the Rural Countryside. The Canonization Process and Social Mobility in Thirteenth-Century Hungary 103
  14. The Techniques of a Hagiographer. The Two Legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary 125
  15. St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian Vernacular Literature. Vitae, Miracles, Revelations, and the Meditations on the Life of Crist 137
  16. Division and Reintegration of the Body of St. Stanislaus. A Political Analogy in Sermons? 151
  17. Saints, Names, and Identities. The Case of Charles IV of Luxemburg 165
  18. Saints at Home and Abroad. Some Observations on the Creation of Iconographic Types in Hungary in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 175
  19. Palatine Lackfi and His Saints. Frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely 207
  20. Late Medieval Saints and the Visual Representation of Rural Space 227
  21. Sainthood in the Propaganda of Mendicant Orders. The Case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches 245
  22. Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death (1348–ca. 1500) 261
  23. “Had She Born Ten Daughters, She Would Have Named Them All Mary because of the Kindness of the First Mary”. St. Anne in the Sermons of Two Late Medieval Hungarian Preachers 273
  24. The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images 283
  25. Madonna of Loreto as a Target of Reformation Critique. Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger 291
  26. Saint Christopher. The Patron of Treasure Hunters 305
  27. Contributors 311
  28. Index 317
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