| Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th Contributor(s): Ward, Benedicta (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860783162 ISBN-13: 9780860783169 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History |
| Dewey: 270 |
| LCCN: 91044725 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages. The first group of articles focuses on the Desert Fathers, the following ones examine key figures in the monastic history of the medieval West, dealing above all with England and with Bede and Anselm of Canterbury. Throughout, Benedicta Ward's aim has been to find an approach that makes full sense of Christian writings, notably the hagiography, miracles and all. This should not be seen, she argues, simply as biography, nor as a quarry for information on social history, valuable though it may be for those purposes. The primary object of these Lives - as of the people about whom they were written - was religious; to neglect this meaning is to risk fundamentally misunderstanding these texts. Ce volume traite des concepts de la saintet et de la spiritualit chr tiennes, de l'Antiquit tardive jusqu'au Moyen Age. Le premier groupe d' tudes se concentre sur les P res du D sert, les suivants font l'examen de personnages-clefs dans l'histoire monastique de l'Occident m di val, s'attachant avant tout l'Angleterre et B de et Anselme de Cantorb ry. Benedicta Ward pour propos constant de trouver une approche rendent tout son sens la litterature chr tienne et notamment la litt rature hagiographique, miracles et autres. Bien que valable ces deux niveaux, ceci ne devrait pas atre per u, souligne-t'elle, en tant que simple biographie, ni en tant que source d'information sur l'histoire sociale. L'objet premier de ces Vies est d'ordre religieux; toute n gligence de ce sens peut mener une m compr hension fondamentale de ces textes. |