Saints of Europe: Studies Towards a Survey of Cults and Culture - Erstausgabe

A collection of essays on the study of dedications in Europe, ranging from the British Isles to Iceland, Finland, Karelia, Coptic Egypt, Slavonia, medieval Italy and Catalunya, and from the earliest period of Christianity to the modern. The contents are: Graham Jones 'Diverse Expressions, Shared meanings: Surveying Saints in the Context of "European Culture"'; Charles Caspers and Peter Jan Margery 'Saints' Cults and Pilgrimage Sites in the Netherlands'; Maria CrÄciun and Carmen Florea 'The Cult of Saints in Medieval Transylvania'; Stanko AndriÄ 'Possibilities of a Parish-by-Parish Survey: the Case of Slavonia'; Helmut Flachenecker 'Researching Patrocinia in German-speaking Lands'; Michael Costen 'Pit-falls and Problems: Sources for the Study of Saints' Cults in the Diocese of Bath and Welss'; Margaret Cormack 'Evidence for the Cult of Saints in Iceland'; Bart Monnen 'Dedications of Churches and Benefices in Northern France and the Low Countries'; Paolo Golinelli 'The Geography of Sacred Places in the Diocese of Bologna (Italy) in 1300: Cults of the Countryside between the Influences of History and Popular Religion'; Rodger Payne 'Saints of Europe in the |New World: a Note on the Evidence in South Lousiana'; Irina Tcherniakova Churches and Monasteries on the Shores of Lake Onego, Karelia'; Youhanna Nessim Youssef 'Pilgrimage Sites and Personal Cults in Coptic Egypt'; Marie Rowlands 'The Patronal Dedications of Churches in England and Wales: the Roman Catholic Contribution'; Jukka Korpela 'The Patronal Saints of the Medieval Finnish Churches and Altars'; Graham Jones 'Comparative Research Rewarded: Religious Dedications in England, Wales and Catalunya'; and Susan Pearce 'Saintly Cults in South-Western Britain: a Review'.