IDENTITY AND ALTERITY IN HAGIOGRAPHY AND THE CULT OF SAINTS

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Contents

1. Shifting Identities:  From a Roman Matron to Matrona Dei in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis

Thomas J. Heffernan

1. Martyr Cult and Collective Identity in Fourth-Century Rome

Marianne Sághy

1. Passio Sancti Justi Martyris: A Late Antique Statement of Roman Identity vis-à-vis Domination from the East

Luciana Cuppo

1. The Theological Other: Religious and Narrative Identity in Fifth to Seventh  Century Byzantine Miracle Collections

Ildikó Csepregi

1. The ‘Odor of Sanctity’: Defining Identity and Alterity in the Early Middle Ages (Fifth to Ninth Century)

Martin Roch

1. Absolute Alterity in the Cult of Saints: Saint Nobody

Lucie Doležalová

1. Building a British Identity: Jocelin of Furness’s Use of Sources in Vita Kentigerni

Lindsay McArthur Irvin

1. Regionalism and Identity: Localizing the Cult of Mary in Medieval Wales

Jane Cartwright

1. The Cult of St Barbara and the Saxon Community of Late Medieval Transylvania

Maria Crăciun

10.  Hungarians as ‘Saintly Pagans’ in late Medieval Western Literature 

Dávid Falvay

11.  Tamquam lupi rapaces: Dynamics of the Image of Venetian Army in the Hagiography of Trogir

Ana Marinković

12.  Family vs Order: Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Dominican Habit in the Narrative Tradition of the Order

Marika Räsänen

13.  Necromancers and Saints from Simon Magus to Albertus Magnus: The Medieval Background to a Fifteenth-Century Problem

David J. Collins

14.  Anti-Jewish Motifs in the Poetry of Blessed Władysław of Gielniów (c. 1440 – 1505)

Rafał Wójcik                                           

15.  Closing the Borders: St Francis at Orta  

Cynthia Ho                                                         

16.  The ‘Significant Other’ in Canonizations in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  Raeleen Chai-Elsholz