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Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover, 0)
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Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover, 0)
Series: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
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Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that
suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood
throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in
the Late Middle Ages analyses the meanings given to putative
saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings.
How was an individual saint's bodily ailment investigated in the
inquests, and how did the witnesses (re)construct the saintly
candidates' ailments? What meanings were given to infirmity when
providing proofs for holiness? This study depicts holy infirmity as
an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community,
in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt,
the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly
life. Furthermore, it analyses how the meanings given to saints'
infirmities influenced and reflected society's attitudes towards
bodily ailments - or dis/ability - in general.
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