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This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire.
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This volume brings together the texts and translations for three Syriac martyr acts, set in Sasanian Persia during the reign of Shapur II (309-379 CE). These texts offer compelling witness to the challenges of a community's need to honor memory and experience, and evidence towards the formation and sustenance of Christian identity in the midst of Persian society and culture.
Christian martyrs --- Christian saints --- Martyrologes --- Martyrologies --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Persecution --- Persécutions --- Saints chrétiens --- Sassanides --- Sassanids --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- History
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This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primarily on the medieval Mediterranean. It examines the meanings members of each community ascribed to the presence of the religious other at "their" festivals or holy sites during pilgrimage. Communal boundaries were often redefined or dissolved during pilgrimage and religious festivals. Yet, paradoxically, shared practices served to enforce communal boundaries, since many of the religious elite devised polemical interpretations of these phenomena which highlighted the superiority of their own faith. Such interpretations became integral to each group’s theological understanding of self and other to such a degree that in some regions, religious minorities were required to participate in the festivals of the ruling community. In all formulations, “otherness” remained an essential component of both polemic and prayer.
Fasts and feasts --- Religions --- History --- Mediterranean Region --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Christians. --- Jews. --- Muslims. --- Shared saints. --- pilgrimage. --- shared festivals. --- shared space.
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Ce livre réunit les traductions annotées des œuvres hagiographiques latines éditées dans le volume CC CM 310: 'Hagiographica hispana regnorum Aragonum et Castellae Legionisque saeculorum IX-XIII', paru en 2022. Il s'agit des Vies, transferts de reliques et collections de miracles les plus importantes composées au Moyen Âge dans les monastères de San Juan de la Peña, San Millán de la Cogolla et San Zoilo de Carrión en l'honneur de saint Indalèce (un des sept évangélisateurs mythiques de l'Espagne); de deux saints d'époque wisigothique, saint Félix de Bilibio (le maître de saint Millán) et saint Millán lui-même; et deux saints médiévaux: saint Félix et saint Votus de Saragosse (les fondateurs de ce qui deviendra plus tard San Juan de la Peña). Les deux autres écrits du volume sont deux Vies consacrées à saint Urbez (un ermite aragonais d'origine, peut-être, français) et, surtout, au célèbre patron de la ville de Madrid, saint Isidore le Laboureur. La plupart de ces traductions sont les premières à avoir été réalisées dans une langue moderne.
Christian saints --- Christian hagiography --- Christian hagiography --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Miracles --- Christian hagiography --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Early works to 1800. --- History --- History
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