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Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 Paul Oldfield (University of Manchester)

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 By Paul Oldfield (University of Manchester)

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 by Paul Oldfield (University of Manchester)


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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.

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 Summary

Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 by Paul Oldfield (University of Manchester)

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.

About Paul Oldfield (University of Manchester)

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

Table 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.

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NLS9781316648902
9781316648902
1316648907
Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 by Paul Oldfield (University of Manchester)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2017-04-06
326
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