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Christian saints in art. --- Art, Byzantine. --- Byzantine art --- Art, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Art, Byzantine --- Christian saints in art --- Saints chrétiens dans l'art --- Art byzantin --- Art [Byzantine ] --- Saints militaires --- Iconographie

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Solo di recente gli studi filologici si sono applicati all'esame sistematico dell'ampio e articolato corpus dell'agiografia volgare medievale in prosa, spostando l'attenzione dai singoli testi - visti in passato per lo più come reperti di interesse linguistico - verso il libro agiografico, verso cioè le centinaia di raccolte che tra XIII e XIV sec. si diffondono non solo in ambienti religiosi ma anche, e soprattutto, presso i ceti laici e borghesi, dove la raccolta agiografica, al di là delle sue funzioni devozionali, spesso rappresenta lo strumento base (e talvolta unico) anche per una più generale edificazione culturale e letteraria. A fianco dei cataloghi e dei repertori, si avverte oggi il bisogno di disporre di edizioni complete dei singoli mss., in modo da poter analizzarne le fonti, la scelta e l'ordinamento dei testi, la lingua e lo stile, gli interventi sui contenuti, e infine i rapporti di parentela tra le diverse raccolte. A questi scopi e principi si ispira la presente edizione della raccolta redatta in italiano settentrionale (inizio XIV sec.) del ms. Magl. XXXVIII.110 della Bibl. Naz. di Firenze, introdotta da uno studio stilistico, con speciale atten-zione alle strategie di traduzione, uno studio delle fonti e uno studio linguistico molto ampio (corredato di glossario).

Christian saints --- Hagiography. --- Hagiographie --- Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. --- Biblioteca medicea laurenziana. --- Hagiography --- Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze --- Biblioteca medicea laurenziana --- Italian language --- Biblioteca medicea laurenziana. Manuscript Ashb. 395. --- Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Manuscript Magliabechiano XXXVIII.110. --- Christian saints -- Biography. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Hagiology --- Saints --- Christian saints - Biography --- Légendier italien --- Italian. --- Lives of the Saints (Vitae). --- Middle Ages. --- Vernacular. --- Vernacularisation/Vulgarisation.

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This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first three contributions analyze the use of Egyptian hagiography in the context of late antique Egypt and, in particular, examine to what extent these texts can be used as historical sources for the reconstruction of traditional (pagan) religion. The other contributions illustrate the different contexts in which Egyptian hagiography was reused in the medieval West. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.

Christian hagiography. --- Christianity and other religions --- Christian saints --- Desert Fathers. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Christianisme --- Saints chrétiens --- Pères du désert --- Egyptian. --- Relations --- Religion égyptienne --- Christian hagiography --- Desert Fathers --- Egyptian --- Christian saints. --- Christianity. --- Egyptians --- Hagiografi. --- Interfaith relations. --- RELIGION --- Religion. --- Christian Theology --- Angelology & Demonology. --- Egypt. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- Pères du désert --- Religion égyptienne --- Saints --- Canonization --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Fathers of the church --- Christianity and other religions - Egyptian --- Christian saints - Egypt --- Egypte --- Monachisme égyptien --- Patrum vitae

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"Undocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the US and the evolution of their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are performed in the worlds of faith, religiosity, and the imaginary, and how the socio-political realities of exploitation and racial segregation frame their popular religious expressions. It also tracks the emergence of inter-religious states, transnational ethnic and cultural enclaves unified by faith. The book looks at five vernacular saints that have emerged in Mexico and whose devotions have migrated into the US in the last one hundred years: Jesús Malverde, a popular bandido turned saint caudillo; Santa Olguita, an emerging feminist saint linked to border women's experiences of sexual violence; Juan Soldado, a murder-rapist soldier who is now a patron for undocumented immigrants and the main suspect in the death of an eight-year-old victim known now as Santa Olguita; Toribio Romo, a Catholic priest whose ghost/spirit has been helping people cross the border into the US since the 1990s; and La Santa Muerte, a controversial personification of death who is particularly popular among LGBTQ migrants. Each chapter contextualizes a particular popular saint within broader discourses about the construction of masculinity and the state, the long history of violence against Latina and migrant women, female erasure from history, discrimination against non-normative sexualities, and as US and Mexican investment in the control of religiosity within the discourses of immigration."

Christian hagiography. --- Folk religion. --- Veneration of saints and Christian union. --- Christian saints --- Christian union and veneration of saints --- Christian union --- Religion --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Cult --- Ecumenical aspects

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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