| Description |
1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs |
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Middle Ages series |
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Middle Ages series.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on names -- Maps 1 and 2 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Prolegomenon on the Dating and Authorship of the Writings about Gerald of Aurillac -- Chapter 2. The First Saint Gerald -- Chapter 3. The Second Saint Gerald -- Chapter 4. Saint Gerald and the Swell of History -- Chapter 5. Saint Gerald and the Ebb of History -- Chapter 6. The Modern Cult of Saint Gerald -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Translation of the Vita sancti Geraldi brevior -- Appendix 2. The Manuscripts of the Vita Geraldi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
The Making and Unmaking of a Saint traces the rise and fall of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac through a millennium, from his death in the tenth century to the attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the nineteenth century |
| Analysis |
History |
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
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Religion |
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Religious Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gerald, of Aurillac, Saint, 855-909 -- Cult -- History
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Odo, Saint, Abbot of Cluny, approximately 879-942. Vita sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis.
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| SUBJECT |
Odo, Saint, Abbot of Cluny, approximately 879-942. Vita sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis
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Gerald, of Aurillac, Saint, 855-909 -- Cult -- History
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Gerald, of Aurillac, Saint, 855-909 fast |
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Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500
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Christian saints -- France -- Aurilla -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Saints & Sainthood.
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Cults
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Christian hagiography
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Christian saints
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France -- Aurillac
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Early works
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812245523 |
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0812245520 |
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9780812208894 |
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0812208897 |
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