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Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200
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Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200 Hardcover - 1990

by Head, Thomas


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This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the cult of saints. It examines the patrons of a single diocese, Orlans, because a saint's power of patronage was defined in terms of a particular locale. Beyond the documentation of this region's textual and institutional traditions, the book explores the uses made of sanctity and patronage by the Franks. These so-called 'fathers' protected monasteries against interference by ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Moreover, as inhabitants of God's court of heaven, these 'fathers' served monks and laypeople as intercessors with God in matters of sin and disease. Thus they provided, in the Orlanais and elsewhere, an important source of power and authority, as well as an aspect of Christian belief which was shared by clergy and laity.

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  • Title Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200
  • Author Head, Thomas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 342
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, UK
  • Date 1990
  • ISBN 9780521365000
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