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This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence.

Painting --- Iconography --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- anno 1000-1099 --- Istanbul [city] --- Italy --- Christian saints in art --- Vita icons --- Painting, Byzantine --- Painting, Italian --- Saints chrétiens dans l'art --- Icônes biographiques --- Peinture byzantine --- Peinture italienne --- History. --- Histoire --- Francis, --- Art --- Saints chrétiens dans l'art --- Icônes biographiques --- Art. --- Biographical icons --- Icons --- Icons [Byzantine ] --- Icon painting --- Saints --- Iconographie --- Icônes --- Art byzantin --- Italie

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The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' Lives in the vernacular. Of these Lives, Ælfric is the most important author, and his saints' Lives have never previously been explored in their contemporary setting. In this study, Gretsch analyses Ælfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England. This gives the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Ælfric at work': he adapts the cults and rewrites the received Latin hagiography of the five saints, with the result that each of their English Lives conveys a distinct message to the contemporary political elite and to a lay audience at large.

Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Cult --- Histoire --- Culte --- Aelfric, --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints --- Canonization --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Elfrike, --- Älfrik, --- Aelfrik, --- Alfric, --- Alfricus, --- Elfric, --- Aelfricus, --- Aelfric --- To 1500 --- England --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Christian saints - Cult - England - History - To 1500 --- Anglo-Saxons --- Culte des saints --- Angleterre --- Aelfric, - Abbot of Eynsham

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The Legend of St Brendan is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by Brendan, a sixth-century Irish saint. The immense popularity of the Latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninth-century Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis and changes the emphasis, leaving a recognisably secular narrative. The vernacular version focuses on marvellous imagery and the trials and tribulations of a long sea-voyage. Together the two versions demonstrate a movement away from hagiography towards adventure. Studies of the two versions rarely discuss the elements of the fantastic. Following a summary of authorship, audiences and sources, this comparative study adopts a structural approach to the two versions of the Brendan narrative. It considers what the fantastic imagery achieves and addresses issues raised with respect to theological parallels.

Christian saints --- Epic literature --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature épique --- Legends --- History and criticism --- Légendes --- Histoire et critique --- Brendan, --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani --- Translations. --- America --- Amérique --- Discovery and exploration --- Irish --- Découverte et exploration irlandaises --- Translations --- Reseskildringar --- Helgonlegender. --- Saints --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani. --- Voyage de saint Brendan. --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature épique --- Légendes --- Amérique --- Découverte et exploration irlandaises --- Brandaan, --- Brandan, --- Brandão, --- Legende des Heiligen Brandan --- Legende des Heiligen Brendan --- Navigatio S. Brendani --- Navigatio Brendani --- Voyage of St. Brendan --- Voyage of Brendan --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis --- Navegação de S. Brandão --- Brandanus ab. Clonfertensis --- Brendan, - Saint, the Voyager, - ca. 483-577

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Slocum analyzes the image of Thomas Becket as presented in the liturgies composed in his honour, and examines these within the context of the political and social history of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

235.3 THOMAS BECKET --- 27 <420> "11" --- Hagiografie--THOMAS BECKET --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"11" --- Saints chretiens --- Thomas, --- Cult --- History --- Catholic Church --- Eglise catholique --- Liturgy --- Liturgie --- Textes --- Becket, Thomas à, --- Becket, Thomas, --- Thomas --- Sciences naturelles --- Natural history --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Guides. --- Guidebooks. --- Christian saints --- Ontario --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Thomas Cantuariensis --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Saints chretiens - Angleterre - Biographies --- Thomas ep. Cantuariensis m. --- Thomas, - a Becket, Saint, - 1118?-1170 - Cult - History - Sources --- Thomas, - Becket, saint, - 1118?-1170 - Chants et musique --- Liturgies. --- Cults. --- Alternative religious movements --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Liturgics --- Litúrgies --- lemac --- Thomas, - a Becket, Saint, - 1118?-1170 --- Thomas, - Becket, saint, - 1118?-1170 --- Thomas (Becket) --- Thomas Becket, --- Cult. --- Catholic Church. --- Église catholique --- England --- England. --- Katolicheskai͡a t͡serkovʹ --- Katolyt͡sʹka t͡serkva --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Kingdom of England --- Engländer --- Großbritannien --- -1707

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The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century. The themes of the book are the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts. For the first time researchers in Celtic, German, Latin and Romance languages and literatures have co-operated on the Brendan tradition, and they have mapped the changes in textual traditions according to different circumstances and audiences. This book will be important to those studying the influence of Celtic literature on the European Continent, and, more generally, to those interested in the versatility of textual traditions in Western Europe.

Christian saints --- Epic literature --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature épique --- Legends. --- History and criticism. --- Légendes --- Histoire et critique --- Brendan, --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani. --- America --- Amérique --- Discovery and exploration --- Irish --- Découverte et exploration irlandaises --- Legends --- History and criticism --- In literature --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature épique --- Légendes --- Amérique --- Découverte et exploration irlandaises --- Christian saints. --- Literature. --- Saints --- Canonization --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- In literature. --- Brandaan, --- Brandan, --- Brandão, --- Legende des Heiligen Brandan --- Legende des Heiligen Brendan --- Navigatio S. Brendani --- Navigatio Brendani --- Voyage of St. Brendan --- Voyage of Brendan --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis --- Navegação de S. Brandão --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Christian saints - Ireland - Legends - History and criticism --- Brandanus ab. Clonfertensis --- Brendan, - Saint, the Voyager, - ca. 483-577 - In literature --- America - Discovery and exploration - Irish - Legends - History and criticism --- Brendan, - Saint, the Voyager, - ca. 483-577