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Saints, Sanctity, and Crisis in Medieval and Early Modern Hagiography book cover

1st Edition

Saints, Sanctity, and Crisis in Medieval and Early Modern Hagiography

Edited By Nikolas Hoel, Lydia Walker Copyright 2027
232 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the relationship between sanctity and crisis in the medieval and early modern periods in a European context, revealing the multifaceted roles of holy figures in times of personal, collective, environmental, political, and socio-cultural upheaval. It offers a nuanced understanding of the dynamic relationship between hagiography and crisis. Chapters reconsider the historical... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Nikolas O. Hoel and Lydia M. Walker

 

I) Relics, Devotion, and Local Crises

  1. Narratives about Crises in Texts about Inventiones reliquiarum

Monika Gerundt

 

  1. In Time(s) of Crisis: The Spreading of the Devotion towards San Francesco di Paola as a Response to Emergencies

Guilia Zanon

 

II) Violence: Trauma, Memory, and Prophecy

  1. Foundations of Trauma: Plague, Relics, and the Creation of the Igreja de São Roque

Emily Heimerman

 

  1. Partners in Crisis: An Analysis of Thomas of Cantimprè’s Portrayals of Holy Women and Martial Crisis

Lydia M. Walker

 

  1.  A Disappointed Saint?: Perspectives on the Lack of Martyrdom in the Life of Anskar

Nikolas O. Hoel

 

III) Cultural Identity and Ecclesiastical Crises

6.      Narrating Crisis in Times of Reform: Rangerius of Lucca’s Account on Anselm’s Withdrawal to St Giles

Sarah Schnödewind

 

  1. Against Romance: The Crisis of Seventeenth-Century English Sanctity

Gina M. Di Salvo

 

  1. Flowers, Fauna and Garlanded Priests: The Festa dell’Inghirlandata in Medieval Naples

Clare Whitton

 

Index

 

Biography

Nikolas O. Hoel is an Instructor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, USA. His research interests focus on the religious and intellectual history of Late Antiquity.

Lydia M. Walker is the Assistant Professor of History and Religion and the Leman and Marie Barnhill Endowed Chair in Religious Studies at Barton College, USA. She examines gender, exegesis, hagiography, and crusading ideology in the thirteenth century.

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