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- catalog abstract ""A trickster saint whose miracles reportedly included the healing of an inguinal hernia via a hammer and anvil, Sainte Foy (Saint Faith) inspired one of the most important collections of miracle stories of the central Middle Ages. In this book, Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn explore the act of "writing faith" as performed both by the authors of these stories and by the scholars who have used them as sources for the study of medieval religion and society." "Writing Faith demonstrates that clusters of miracles form sign systems, and that it is those systems of meaning or representation that can be historically located. Thus, rather than treating individual miracle stories as transparent sources of specific historical data, we can recognize representations common to groups of miracle stories as coherent historical formations. For instance, the negative characterizations of Muslims in the late miracles situate the stories' composition in the eleventh century, a period of rising hostility on the eve of the Crusades."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11067342.
- catalog contributor b11067343.
- catalog coverage "Conques (Aveyron, France) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "France Religious life and customs.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""A trickster saint whose miracles reportedly included the healing of an inguinal hernia via a hammer and anvil, Sainte Foy (Saint Faith) inspired one of the most important collections of miracle stories of the central Middle Ages. In this book, Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn explore the act of "writing faith" as performed both by the authors of these stories and by the scholars who have used them as sources for the study of medieval religion and society."".
- catalog description ""Writing Faith demonstrates that clusters of miracles form sign systems, and that it is those systems of meaning or representation that can be historically located. Thus, rather than treating individual miracle stories as transparent sources of specific historical data, we can recognize representations common to groups of miracle stories as coherent historical formations. For instance, the negative characterizations of Muslims in the late miracles situate the stories' composition in the eleventh century, a period of rising hostility on the eve of the Crusades."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Reading Hagiography -- 1. Bernard of Angers and the Trickster Text -- 2. Bernard of Angers between Two Worlds -- 3. The Monastic Appropriation of Bernard's Text -- 4. Late Miracle Narratives -- 5. The Social Semiotics of the Liber miraculorum -- Conclusion: The Cultural Work of Miracle Collections.".
- catalog extent "x, 205 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226029662 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226029670 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "Conques (Aveyron, France) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "France Conques (Aveyron)".
- catalog spatial "France Conques".
- catalog spatial "France Religious life and customs.".
- catalog subject "235/.2 21".
- catalog subject "BX4700.F37 A74 1999".
- catalog subject "Bernardus, scholasticus, active 1010-1020. Liber miraculorum Sanctae Fidis.".
- catalog subject "Christian child saints France Conques (Aveyron) Biography.".
- catalog subject "Christian child saints France Conques Biography.".
- catalog subject "Foy, Saint, approximately 290-303.".
- catalog subject "Miracles History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Reading Hagiography -- 1. Bernard of Angers and the Trickster Text -- 2. Bernard of Angers between Two Worlds -- 3. The Monastic Appropriation of Bernard's Text -- 4. Late Miracle Narratives -- 5. The Social Semiotics of the Liber miraculorum -- Conclusion: The Cultural Work of Miracle Collections.".
- catalog title "Writing faith : text, sign, & history in the miracles of Sainte Foy / Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn.".
- catalog type "text".