Promoting the Saints: Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period

By Balázs Nagy and Jozef Laszlovsky

The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors--from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history--represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of G bor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9639776939
• ISBN13: 9789639776937
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher