Possible Lives: Authors And Saints In Renaissance Italy - Hardcover

Frazier, Alison Knowles

 
9780231129763: Possible Lives: Authors And Saints In Renaissance Italy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231129769 ISBN 13: 9780231129763
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Possible Lives uses the saints'lives written by humanists of the Italian Renaissance to explore the intertwining of classical and religious cultures on the eve of the European Reformation. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. During the century before the Reformation, these narratives of impossible goodness fell into the hands of classicizing intellectuals known as humanists. This study examines how the humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments.

Drawn from a newly constructed catalog of primary sources in manuscript and print, the cases in this book range from the lure of martyrdom as the West confronted Islam to the use of saints'lives in local politics and the rhetorician's classroom. Frazier discusses the writers'perceptions of historical sanctity, the commanding place of the mendicant friars, and one unique account of a contemporary holy woman.

Possible Lives shows that the classical Renaissance was also a saintly Renaissance, as humanists deployed their rhetorical and philological skills to "renew the persuasive force of Christian virtue" and "save the cult of the saints." Combining quantitative and anecdotal approaches in a highly readable series of case studies, Frazier reveals the contextual richness of this little-known and unexpectedly large body of Latin hagiography.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alison Knowles Frazier is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231129769
ISBN 13 
9780231129763
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Anzahl der Seiten
527
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