Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200

This book integrates the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offering important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Sanctity: 1. Sanctity in early medieval southern Italy; 2. The Latin mainland: south Italian saints, Normans, Church reform and urbanization; 3. Greek saints in southern Italy: at Christendom's faultline; 4. Sicilian saints and Christian renewal; Part II. Pilgrimage: 5. Bridge to salvation and entrance to the underworld: southern Italy and international pilgrimage; 6. Pilgrims at south Italian and foreign shrines: origins, identities and destinations; Conclusion; Bibliography.

About the author

Paul Oldfield is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. His previous publications include City and Community in Norman Italy (Cambridge, 2009).

Summary

For the first time, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of sanctity and pilgrimage in southern Italy between 1000 and 1200 - a politically and culturally fragmented land where Latin Christian, Greek Christian and Muslim communities coexisted. It offers important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith across the medieval world.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Oldfield, Paul (University of Manchester) Oldfield, Oldfield Paul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107000285
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00028-5
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; European History, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval