Medievalists.net » Cult of Saints http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Katherine of Alexandria: Decline of an Empire http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/27/katherine-of-alexandria-decline-of-an-empire/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/27/katherine-of-alexandria-decline-of-an-empire/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57908 According to hagiographers, (C)Katherine was a princess, the daughter of Roman governor named Constus. She was well educated, beautiful and highly intelligent. She converted to Christianity at the age of 13 or 14 and caught the eye of the Roman Emperor, Maxentius (278-318 AD).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/27/katherine-of-alexandria-decline-of-an-empire/feed/ 0 10 Cool Facts about Saint Catherine http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/22/10-cool-facts-about-saint-catherine/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/22/10-cool-facts-about-saint-catherine/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:56:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57796 Saint Catherine of Alexandria and her wheel have been well recognized symbols since the beginning of the Middle Ages. Here are 10 interesting tidbits about Saint Catherine:

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/22/10-cool-facts-about-saint-catherine/feed/ 0 The Bones of St. Cuthbert: Defining a Saint’s Cult in Medieval Northumbria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54235 This paper investigates the social, political, and religious changes and tensions which surrounded the cult of St. Cuthbert in medieval Northumbria. Specific comparisons are made between the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods in English history, and how St. Cuthbert's cult responded to the Norman Conquest in 1066.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/feed/ 0 Miracula, Saints’ Cults and Socio-Political Landscapes: Bobbio, Conques and post-Carolingian society http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/21/miracula-saints-cults-socio-political-landscapes-bobbio-conques-post-carolingian-society/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/21/miracula-saints-cults-socio-political-landscapes-bobbio-conques-post-carolingian-society/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:10:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52004 Despite the centrality of monastic sources to debates about social and political transformation in post-Carolingian Europe, few studies have approached the political and economic status of monasteries and their saints’ cults in this context, to which this thesis offers a comparative approach.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/21/miracula-saints-cults-socio-political-landscapes-bobbio-conques-post-carolingian-society/feed/ 0 Saints’ Cults in Medieval Livonia http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/03/saints-cults-medieval-livonia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/03/saints-cults-medieval-livonia/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2014 23:06:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51565 Saints' cults played a crucial role in medieval society. Although we know very little about the beliefs and rituals of the indigenous peoples of Livonia, either before or after the thirteenth-century conquest, we may assume that the process of Christianization must have caused major changes in their religious practices.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/03/saints-cults-medieval-livonia/feed/ 0 Saints, Tradition and Monastic Identity: The Ghent Relics, 850-1100 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/saints-tradition-monastic-identity-ghent-relics-850-1100/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/saints-tradition-monastic-identity-ghent-relics-850-1100/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:35:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50949 The extraordinary story ofthe Ghent relics was first told by Oswald Holder- Egger in an article published in 1886. During his work on part two of volume 15 of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores series, which Holder- Egger had just finished, he had come across the hagiographie literature produced at the abbeys of St Baafs and St Pieters in Ghent.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/saints-tradition-monastic-identity-ghent-relics-850-1100/feed/ 0 Childbirth Miracles in Swedish Medieval Miracle Collections http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/02/childbirth-miracles-swedish-medieval-miracle-collections/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/02/childbirth-miracles-swedish-medieval-miracle-collections/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:40:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48734 The chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth was very real for medieval women, and still is in many Third World countries. In Medieval Catholic Western Europe, including Scandinavia, these risks, and the absence of medically schooled persons who could give efficient help, led many women to turn to the saints for intercession.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/02/childbirth-miracles-swedish-medieval-miracle-collections/feed/ 0 St. Patrick’s Irish Pride http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/17/st-patricks-irish-pride/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/17/st-patricks-irish-pride/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:41:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48340 In honour of the day, it seems fitting to throw out some interesting facts about St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/17/st-patricks-irish-pride/feed/ 0 The Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers and its Latin Source http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/the-anonymous-old-english-legend-of-the-seven-sleepers-and-its-latin-source/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/the-anonymous-old-english-legend-of-the-seven-sleepers-and-its-latin-source/#comments Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:26:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46997 The earliest extended treatment of the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in a
western vernacular language is the anonymous Old English prose version preserved
in British Library MS Cotton Julius E vii...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/the-anonymous-old-english-legend-of-the-seven-sleepers-and-its-latin-source/feed/ 0 Under the aegis of the saints. Hagiography and power in early Carolingian northern Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/under-the-aegis-of-the-saints-hagiography-and-power-in-early-carolingian-northern-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/under-the-aegis-of-the-saints-hagiography-and-power-in-early-carolingian-northern-italy/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:50:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46905 This article gives an overview of the features, choices, tastes and models of sanctity characteristic of Italian hagiography, against the background of local contexts and political competition.

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