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Book SynopsisAssembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in medieval popular religion, including ‘religious enthusiasm’. Together, the essays comprise a comprehensive and rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth centuries) and in different geographical locations (England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Low Countries). By approaching the theme of sanctity from multiple disciplinary perspectives, this highly original collection pushes forward current academic thinking about medieval hagiography, iconography, social history, women's studies, and architectural history.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii Gary Dickson’s Bibliography, 1984–2007 .. ix Introduction: Religious Enthusiasm and Charismatic Power in the Middle Ages ... xiii André Vauchez Making Saints The Women Behind Their Saints: Dominican Women’s Promotion of the Cults of Their Religious Companions ... 5 Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner Gender Trouble in Paradise: The Problem of the Liturgical Virgo .. 25 Felice Lifshitz Locating Sanctity Saint Triduana of Restalrig? Locating a Saint and Her Cult in Late Medieval Lothian and Beyond .. 45 Helen Brown The Architectural Framework for the Cults of Saints: Some Scottish Examples ... 71 Richard Fawcett Seeing Sanctity The Holy and the Unholy: Analogies for the Numinous in Later Medieval Art ... 101 Debra Higgs Strickland The Measure of the Virgin’s Foot ... 121 Michael Bury Living Image of Pity: Mimetic Violence, Peace-Making and Salvifi c Spectacle in the Flagellant Processions of the Later Middle Ages .. 135 Mitchell B. Merback Society and the Sacred Perceptions of Relics: Civic Religion in Late Medieval Bruges .. 185 Andrew Brown Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sanctity: Tradition, Innovation and Saint Guthlac ... 207 Alaric Hal l List of Contributors .. 237 Index ... 239
