Medieval Saints: A Reader
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This text includes a number of writings by or about women saints, as well as a large percentage of material which, prior to this book, was not available in English. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 1 MARTYRS OF THE EARLY CHURCH I.THE MARTYRDOM OF ST POLYCARP, BISHOP OF SMYRNA 2. THE MARTYRS OF LYONS AND VIENNE 3. THE PASSION OF SS. PERPETUA AND FELICITAS 4. TERTULLIAN’S ADDRESS TO THE MARTYRS 5. AUGUSTINE PREACHES ON THE FEAST OF SS. PERPETUA AND FELICITAS 6. THE TRIALS AND EXECUTION OF CYPRIAN 7. THE AGE OF MARTYRS IN LEGEND: THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS 2 THE DESERT FATHERS AND MOTHERS 8. CHRISTIANITY IN THE DESERT: ST. ANTONY THE GREAT 9. ANTONY’S DISCIPLES: PAUL THE SIMPLE IO. THE FIRST HERMIT: ST. PAUL OF THEBES ii. A HARLOT IN THE DESERT: MARY OF EGYPT 12. A FAMOUS PILLAR SAINT: SYMEON STYLITES 13. A TRANSVESTITE SAINT: MARY/MARINA 3 BISHOPS. MONKS AND NUNS 14. MARTIN OF TOURS 15. THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF ST. BENEDICT 16.VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS’S 17. RADEGUND WRITES TO THE BISHOPS 18. AN IRISH MISSIONARY: ST. GALL, BY WALAHFRID STRABO 19. A MIRROR FOR MONKS: BY ODILO, FIFTH ABBOT OF CLUNY. 4 ROYAL SAINTS 2i. ST. MARGARET, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND 5 PILGRIMAGE 22. ST. AUGUSTINE ON THE RITES AT THE MARTYRS’TOMBS 23. PILGRIMAGE AND MIRACLES IN NORTH AFRICA 24. SÆWULF MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND 26. PILGRIMAGE AS METAPHOR: 27. JERUSALEM PILGRIMAGE IN 1480: THE TRIBULATIONS OF BROTHER FELIX 6 RELICS 28. GREGORY OF TOURS: THE POWER OF RELICS 29. THE HUMILIATION OF ST. MITRIAS 30. THE AFFAIR OF ST. SERGIUS’S FINGERBONE 32. THEFT OF RELICS: THE TRANSLATION OF SS. MARCELLINUS AND PETER 33- FALSE RELICS AND IMPOSTERS 34. FUNDRAISING WITH RELICS: THE MONKS OF LAON 35. FIRE AT THE SHRINE OF ST. EDMUND 7 NEW DIRECTIONS 36. THE NEW HERMITS: GODRIC OF FINCHALE 37. WOMEN’S SPIRITUALITY I: CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING 38. WOMEN’S SPIRITUALITY II: UMILTÀ OF FAENZA 39. THE CONVERSION OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI AND THE FOUNDING OF HIS ORDER 40. HUMANISTIC HAGIOGRAPHY: THE WRITINGS OF ST. FRANCIS’S COMPANIONS 41. THE OFFICIAL LIFE OF ST FRANCIS: THE STIGMATA 43 .THE CANONIZATION OF ST. FRANCIS 8 HAGIOGRAPHIC ROMANCES 44. ST. URSULA AND THE ELEVEN THOUSAND VIRGINS 45. FOUR ‘LIVES’ FROM THE GOLDEN LEGEND 46. ‘LIVES’ OF ST. CHRISTOPHER: THE IRISH LIBAR BREAC 47. ‘LIVES’ OF ST. CHRISTOPHER: 9 EPILOGUE 49- A REFORMER’S VIEW OF THE CULT OF THE SAINTS 50 . A HERETIC’S CONFESSION INDEX OF TOPICS
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