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The internal structure of medieval Latin legendaries: a computational analysis
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Sébastien de Valeriola and Bastien Dubuisson
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 39, Issue 1, April 2024, Pages 109–123, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad097
Published: 10 January 2024
.... Furthermore, they open the possibility to obtain clues regarding the origin of some codices and potential kinship links between them. Middle Ages hagiography computational analysis classification visualization FNR 10.13039/100007869 13505915 In 1607, the Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde presented the ideas...
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Communicating Ideas and Emotions in the Long Sixteenth Century: The Spectacle of the Saints, their Relics and Souvenirs in the Northern Low Countries
Marco Mostert
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 78–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa028
Published: 23 December 2020
... of the veneration of the saints, hagiographical texts will take centre stage. However, although hagiography renders certain services to the veneration of the saints, this veneration is not wholly dependent on hagiographical texts. Relics are known to have been present in the Northern Netherlands at the time...
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The Saint as Medicator: Medicine and the Miraculous in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy
Jenni Kuuliala
Social History of Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 3, August 2021, Pages 703–722, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa053
Published: 22 July 2020
... collaborated with them. The connection of a medicating saint and a miracle-performing saint is thus an essential aspect of the medical pluralism of late medieval and early modern societies. hagiography medical pluralism Renaissance miracles Academy of Finland 10.13039/501100002341 287483 Academy...
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After Death, Her Face Turned White: Blackness, Whiteness, and Sanctity in the Early Modern Hispanic World
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Erin Kathleen Rowe
The American Historical Review, Volume 121, Issue 3, June 2016, Pages 727–754, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.3.727
Published: 01 June 2016
... Abstract In the early modern period, devotion to black saints began to spread throughout the Catholic World. First envisioned as a tool for the conversion of newly baptized black slaves, the cults of black saints spread rapidly throughout Iberia and the Americas. This article examines hagiographies...
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The ‘Miracle of Childbirth’: The Portrayal of Parturient Women in Medieval Miracle Narratives
Hilary Powell
Social History of Medicine, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 795–811, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hks019
Published: 23 April 2012
... context of the cult of St Thomas and the new emphasis given to lay testimony. medieval women childbirth hagiography St Thomas of Canterbury medieval medicine In her 2008 volume Making Women's Medicine Masculine, Monica Green argued that male involvement with women's medicine, both medical...
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The Life of Brigit of Kildare in the Castilian Leyenda de los santos
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Emma Gatland
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 71–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqp117
Published: 30 November 2009
... Legenda aurea, there are witnesses of saints, some of them local, whose lives do not appear in the Latin compilation. These saints, purposely taken from other sources and added to the compilations, merit the attention of scholars of medieval Castilian hagiography. One of these saints is Brigit...
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Medicine and Hagiography in Italy c. 800-c.1000
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CLARE PILSWORTH
Social History of Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 2, December 2000, Pages 253–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/13.2.253
Published: 01 December 2000
...CLARE PILSWORTH © 2000 The Society for the Social History of Medicine
Medicine and Hagiography in Italy c. 800—c. 1000
By CLARE PILSWORTH*
SUMMARY. A vast range of sources, from chronicles, hagiography and the liturgy to
medical manuscripts and charters...
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Martyr Passions and Hagiography
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Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Published: 02 September 2009
... to the cult of saints. ‘Hagiography’ is an umbrella term covering writings about holy persons. By the Middle Ages, it was a particular literary form: the ‘Life’, or vita , of a saint, distinct from the martyr's ‘passion’, the account of a martyr's suffering death. Price R M Acts...
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Asceticism
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Rebecca Krawiec
Published: 02 September 2009
... scholarship, especially in the past 35 years. Letters, hagiographies, homilies, even acts of councils all participate in the construction of an asceticism that was a central concern of Christians in late antiquity. To chart the shifts in the study of asceticism is to follow as well the major changes...
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Published: 18 March 2022
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Introduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky
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Sergey Toymentsev
Published: 01 September 2020
... mother complex Andrei Tarkovsky film criticism film history hagiography Throughout his career the renowned Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–86) created only seven feature-length films, or seven and a half, to use Maya Turovskya’s expression, 1 if we include his 1961 diploma short...
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Translating Europe
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Luisa Ostacchini
Published: 18 July 2024
... missionaries seas seafaring Anglo Saxon Chronicle Octodorus Martigny Passio Mauritii et sociorum eius Loire river Paris pilgrimage pilgrims Bede Odo of Glanfeuil Benedict of Nursia Carolingians Ottoman empire Monte Cassino Æthelmær Æthelweard hagiography landscape Arian heresy Constantia...
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Dragons
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Daniel Ogden
Published: 19 November 2024
... to the transformation of the drakōn ’s story type in the vast, long-enduring but intensely conservative tradition of hagiography, in the context of which the well-known story of St George is relatively anomalous. dragons Heracles Labours of Hydra Lernaean iconography Typhoeus Ares Cadmus cave...
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Published: 13 August 1998
...0 13 08 1998 We have examined the common and, at least in relation to Fortunatus’s hagiography, some of the distinctive features of the LVP. Now we turn to the nineteenth book of this collection to consider Gregory’s depiction of a female saint and to see how this composition...
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Turning Swiss: The Patriotism of the Holy Hermit Nicholas
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David J. Collins
Published: 01 January 2008
... Strassburg Trithemius Joannes Venice Augsburg Bonstetten Albert von Brother Claus in front of His Hut Gundelfingen Henry Kurth Willi languages schools and universities Wölflin Henry “Lupulus ” asceticism monasticism and monks kinds of sources Beromünster hagiography Lucerne Waldkirch...
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Introduction
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William M. Gorvine
Published: 20 December 2018
... Gyatso namtar Nyingma order rainbow body jalü confidence Sanok Catherine Schaeffer Kurtis R Gyatso Janet B Jigmé Lingpa Mahāyāna Buddha enlightened attitude bodhicitta former lives ground primordial zhi hagiography kadak lhündrup primordial purity kadak spontaneous presence lhündrup...
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Translation of The Pleasure Garden
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William M. Gorvine
Published: 20 December 2018
... Tsasum Yongdü Riknga Deshek Düpa Kuntu Zangpo Tuktik Tsasum Kundü Kelzang Yungdrung Rapzhiteng Dedü Tsasum Ladrub Döchung Rinchen tiklé Mushen Tönpa Khyung family Sangwa Yangdzong Tenzin Gyaltsen Yangtön Yungdrung Düdul Khyungön Mönsé Namkha Drakpa Tibetan literature biography hagiography...
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Published: 22 October 2015
... Bhabha Homi Protestant missionaries Sanneh Lamin Venn Henry Yelle Robert Protestantism Weber Max and Weberian sociology Asad Talal autobiography hagiography martyrdom syncretism Christian rishi sannyasi missionary Make me your lover, intoxicated in love mujhe ...
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Published: 13 May 2004
... of the Dharma-Jewel through the Ages Mogao caves Dunhuang discourse records yulu transmission of the lamp records chuangdeng lu Zen genres hagiography The Lidai fabao ji is a long-lost Chan/Zen Buddhist text, recovered from among the manuscripts discovered in 1900 in the hidden library...
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Apostolic Geography
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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Published: 21 January 2016
... Agrippa Vipsanius Agrippa map of Aristotle and Aristotelianism encyclopedias and encyclopedia type compilations Pliny the Elder Natural History Sinai Strabo of Amasia Antony cartography in late Roman Empire chthonic disappearance hagiography John Moschus Pratum Spirituale Spiritual Meadow Life...
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