Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Britain explores for the first time how sainthood remained significant in this period both as an enduring institution and as a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0023-8
- EAN: 9781526100238
- Produktnummer: 27906924
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'472 KB
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, black & white
Über den Autor
Gareth Atkins is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is also a member of the Bible and Antiquity Project at CRASSH, Cambridge
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