WAS CENTRAL EUROPE INDEED A ‘COLD’ REGION WHEN IT CAME TO THE CULT OF SAINTS? SOME REMARKS ABOUT A VOLUME EDITED BY FRENCH HISTORIANS
WAS CENTRAL EUROPE INDEED A ‘COLD’ REGION WHEN IT CAME TO THE CULT OF SAINTS? SOME REMARKS ABOUT A VOLUME EDITED BY FRENCH HISTORIANS
Author(s): Maria STARNAWSKAContributor(s): Anna Kijak (Translator)
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Middle Ages, 16th Century, History of Religion
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: saint; cult; Central Europe; mendicants; hagiography;
Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of a collection of a dozen or so studies focused on the cult of saints in Central Europe between the eleventh- and the early sixteenth centuries. The author points both to the merits of the publication in question (its emphasis on the intensity of the cult of saints and presentation of the subject matter in international conference languages) as well as its shortcomings: leaving out the question of saintly duchesses and saintly Christianizing dukes, and the shortage of articles discussing the analysed phenomena in a broad Central European context.
Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
- Issue Year: 127/2020
- Issue No: 4 (en)
- Page Range: 133-144
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English