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Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings - Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Paperback)
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Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings - Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Paperback)
Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture
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Louis IX, king of France from 1226 to 1270 and twice crusader, was
canonized in 1297. He was the last king canonized during the
medieval period, and was both one of the most important saints and
one of the most important kings of the later Middle Ages. In
Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings: Texts Relating to the
Cult of Saint Louis of France, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin presents six
previously untranslated texts that informed medieval views of St.
Louis IX: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint
Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher Jacob of
Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and proper mass in his
honor—the most commonly used liturgical texts composed for
Louis’ feast day—which were widely copied, read, and
disseminated in the Middle Ages. Gaposchkin’s aim is to present
to a diverse readership the Louis as he was known and experienced
in the Middle Ages: a saint celebrated by the faithful for his
virtue and his deeds. She offers for the first time to English
readers a typical hagiographical view of Saint Louis, one in
counterbalance to that set forth in Jean of Joinville’s Life of
Saint Louis. Although Joinville’s Life has dominated our views of
Louis, Joinville’s famous account was virtually unknown beyond
the French royal court in the Middle Ages and was not printed until
the sixteenth century. His portrayal of Louis as an individual and
deeply charismatic personality is remarkable, but it is
fundamentally unrepresentative of the medieval understanding of
Louis. The texts that Gaposchkin translates give immediate access
to the reasons why medieval Christians took Louis to be a saint;
the texts, and the image of Saint Louis presented in them, she
argues, must be understood within the context of the developing
history of sanctity and sainthood at the end of the Middle Ages.
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