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Promoting the Saints
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- Book Synopsis
- The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors**x2014;from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history**x2014;represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.
- About The Author
- Ottó Gecser is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and OTKA post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU. He is interested in cultural and religious history and in historical sociology.József Laszlovszky is Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program of the Central European university. He is guest lecturer at the Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.Balázs Nagy is Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of CEU, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern European History of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. A founding member of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN).Marcell Sebok is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University.
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- ISBN
- 9789639776944
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Central European University Press, (01 July 2010)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 620 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 18 mm
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