Frances Cook: Sanctity and Material Culture: Female Saints and their Devotees in Late-Medieval England
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24 avril 2017
- doi: 10.58079/n6oo
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Sita Steckel, « Frances Cook: Sanctity and Material Culture: Female Saints and their Devotees in Late-Medieval England », COST Action IS1301, ID : 10.58079/n6oo
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Life of St Margaret, opening folio. Hart MS 41020, f. 167r. Photo F. Cook. Courtesy of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, 2017 Many extant material and visual artefacts bear witness to the flourishing cults of a variety of female saints in late-medieval England. How can an examination of these artefacts and associated texts inform our understanding of the way devotees responded emotionally to such cults? This is the central question my paper seeks to address. St Margaret of Antioch, and two a...