Mathew Kuefler

Making and Unmaking of a Saint

Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making and Unmaking of a Saint traces the rise and fall of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac through a millennium, from his death in the tenth century to the attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245523
• ISBN-10: 0812245520
• Artikelnr.: 40308617

Autorenporträt

Mathew Kuefler is Professor of History at San Diego State University, editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and author of The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Names
Maps 1 and 2
Introduction: Hagiography, Memory, History
Chapter 1. Prolegomenon on the Dating and Authorship of the Writings about
Gerald of Aurillac
Chapter 2. The First Saint Gerald
Chapter 3. The Second Saint Gerald
Chapter 4. Saint Gerald and the Swell of History
Chapter 5. Saint Gerald and the Ebb of History
Chapter 6. The Modern Cult of Saint Gerald
Conclusion: Memory, Sanctity, Violence
Appendix 1: Translation of the Vita sancti Geraldi brevior
Appendix 2: The Manuscripts of the Vita Geraldi
Notes
Bibliography
Index