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Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages.
Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe
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Pages: 315
Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Categories: Religion
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This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages.
Images of Medieval Sanctity
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Pages: 313
Authors: Debra Higgs Strickland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: BRILL

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This volume's essays together provide a rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth cen
Gender and Holiness
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Saints in Medieval Manuscripts
Language: en
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Authors: Greg Buzwell
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In Saints in Medieval Manuscripts, Greg Buzwell documents how saints were represented in the manuscripts of the Middle Ages.