Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000–1200

✍ Scribed by Paul Oldfield

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 328
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths of the medieval world, where Latin Christian, Greek Christian and Muslim communities coexisted. In this study, the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of sanctity and pilgrimage in southern Italy between 1000 and 1200, Paul Oldfield presents a fascinating picture of a politically and culturally fragmented land which, as well as hosting its own important relics as important pilgrimage centres, was a transit point for pilgrims and commercial traffic. Drawing on a diverse range of sources from hagiographical material to calendars, martyrologies, charters and pilgrim travel guides, the book examines how sanctity functioned at this key cultural crossroads and, by integrating the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offers important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith in the region and across the medieval world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title page
......Page 3
Abstract......Page 5
Title page
......Page 7
Copyright page
......Page 8
Dedication
......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
Map 1. Southern Italy and Sicily......Page 17
Map 2. The major routeways in southern Italy and Sicily......Page 18
Introduction......Page 19
Part I. Sanctity......Page 37
1
Sanctity in early Medieval Southern Italy......Page 39
2 The Latin mainland: South Italian saints, Normans, Church reform and urbanization
......Page 69
3 Greek saints in Southern Italy: at Christendom’s faultline
......Page 125
4
Sicilian saints and Christian renewal......Page 157
Part II. Pilgrimage......Page 197
5
Bridge to salvation and entrance to the underworld: Southern Italy and international pilgrimage......Page 199
6 Pilgrims at South Italian and foreign shrines: origins, identities, destinations
......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 293
Bibliography......Page 297
Index......Page 319

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