Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages, by Jenni Kuuliala

• Stefano Tomassetti ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Bologna

     University of Bologna

     Bolonia, Italia

     
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 218-220
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Jenni Kuuliala, Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 236 pp. ISBN: 9789462983373.

    Intertwining religious history, history of medicine and disability history, the book investigates the significance that infirmity and its representations had for the construction of sanctity from the 13th to the 15th centuries. The documentary basis is constituted by the canonization processes and the hagiographies of more than twenty European saints, coming from Hungary to France, from Sweden to Italy. Explicitly distancing the research from the “quantitative approach in the analysis of hagiographic texts,” Jenni Kuuliala does ...