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Landscape with Two Saints - How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe (Hardcover)
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Landscape with Two Saints - How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe (Hardcover)
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At a time when Europeans still longed to be Roman and were just
learning to be Christian, two extraordinary holy women-Genovefa of
Paris (ca. 420-502) and Brigit of Kildare (ca. 450-524)-began to
roam their homelands. One of these saints raised an apostolic
church in the imperial city that would become Paris. The other
scavenged fragments of that dwindling empire for the foundations of
a grand Roman basilica built deep in barbarian territory. Both
brought Christianity and romanitas (Roman-ness) to their people. By
examining the ruins of their cities and churches, the workings of
their cults, and the many generations of their devotees, Lisa Bitel
shows how Brigit and Genovefa helped northern Europeans map new
religion onto familiar landscapes. Landscape with Two Saints tells
the twin stories of these charismatic women but also explains how
ordinary people lived through religious change at the very
beginning of the Middle Ages.
Tales of ancient conversions on distant landscapes have much to
teach us about lived and built religion, why people choose new
beliefs, and how they act out those beliefs in meaningful ways. The
combined history of Brigit and Genovefa explains not just how a
couple of legendary peripatetic women could become targets of
devotion, but how and where Europeans became Christian, and what it
meant to them on a daily basis. The story of these two saintly
cults-not just in the pages of manuscripts, but on the streets of
cities, in the stones of cemeteries, and in the walls of
churches-also demonstrates the pervasive influence of gender and
ethnicity, as well as regional culture and material environment, on
the whole process of religious change. Bitel contends that in the
building blocks of their churches and the tracks they once
traveled, Genovefa and Brigit show us what the written words of
missionaries and theologians never can: the active participation of
converts in the history of their own conversion.
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