Author Bartlett, Robert, 1950-

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

Pub Info Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Table of Contents
	List Of Illustrations					xv
	Preface					xvii
	Part I Developments
ch. 1	Origins (100-500)					3
	The Martyrs					3
	The Religious Revolution Of The Fourth Century					7
	Translations					10
	Rituals Of Commemoration And Invocation					13
	Confessor Saints					16
	The Birth Of Hagiography					19
	The First Miracle Books					22
ch. 2	The Early Middle Ages (500-1000)					27
	The Viewfrom The 590s					29
	Gregory The Great					43
	The Benedictine Centuries					47
	New Christendoms: Eastern And Northern Europe					52
ch. 3	The High And Later Middle Ages (1000-1500)					57
	Papal Canonization					57
	Mendicant Saints					65
	Lay Female Saints					71
	New Devotions					77
ch. 4	The Protestant Reformation					85
	Part II Dynamics					93
ch. 5	The Nature Of Cult					95
	Name, Body, Text					95
	Patronage And Invocation: The Mutual Relationship					103
ch. 6	Saints' Days					113
	Liturgy					113
	The Hierarchy Of Feast-Days					120
	Saints' Days And Local Identity					119
	Holy Days And Holidays					133
ch. 7	Types Of Saint					137
	Counting Saints					137
	Categorizing Saints					150
	Saints As Patrons					221
ch. 8	Relics And Shrines					239
	Body Parts					239
	Contact Relics					244
	The Shrine In The Church					250
	Running A Shrine					259
	Reliquaries					263
	Relic Collections					276
	Relics In Movement					282
	Relics In Law And War					311
	Relics In Dispute					314
ch. 9	Miracles					333
	The Meaning Of Miracle					333
	Patterns Of Miracles					341
	Healing Miracles					349
	Miracles Of Provision					365
	Visions, Prophecy, And Rapture					368
	Saints In War					378
	Saints And Demons					383
	Saints And Animals					390
	Liberation					398
	Punitive Miracles					401
ch. 10	Pilgrimage					410
	Origins And Definitions					410
	Pilgrim Garb And Status					417
	Motives					421
	The Shrines Of Medieval Christendom					415
	Logistics					433
	Pilgrim Guides And Pilgrim Badges					439
ch. 11	Dedications And Naming					444
	Dedication Of Churches And Altars					444
	Place Names					454
	Personal Names					459
ch. 12	Images Of The Saints					471
	The Image In Early Christianity					471
	Byzantine Iconoclasm					475
	Images In The Medieval West					480
ch. 13	The Literature Of Sanctity					504
	Types Of Hagiography					504
	Reasons For Writing					510
	The Hagiographers					513
	The Life					518
	Legendaries					546
	Miracle Books					558
	Sermons					570
	The Literature Of Canonization Proceedings					576
	Vernacular Hagiography					578
ch. 14	Doubt And Dissent					587
	Early Polemics					587
	Western Heretics					591
	Sceptics And Scoffers					596
	Policing The Saints					602
ch. 15	Reflections					609
	Saints And Gods					609
	Saints And Nature					618
	Saints And The Dead					621
	Tomb-Shrines In Judaism And Islam					626
	Saints And Ancestors					630
	Comparisons And Conclusions					633
	Glossary					639
	Bibliography Of Works Cited					641
	Index					735