Why can the dead do such great things? : saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation /

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Author / Creator:Bartlett, Robert, 1950-
Imprint:Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12623828
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ISBN:9781400848782
1400848784
9780691159133
0691159130
9780691169682
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Bartlett, Robert, 1950- Why can the dead do such great things? 9780691159133
Table of Contents:
  • Developments. Origins (100-500) ; The Early Middle Ages (500-1000) ; The High and Later Middle Ages (1000-1500) ; The Protestant Reformation
  • Dynamics. The nature of cult ; Saints' days ; Types of saint ; Relics and shrines ; Miracles ; Pilgrimage ; Dedications and naming ; Images of the saints ; Literature of sanctity ; Doubt and dissent ; Reflections.