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Martyrs in the Making
Danna Piroyansky
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Description for Martyrs in the Making
Paperback. This book explores the late medieval English cults that evolved around "political martyrs"--men who had been violently killed in political circumstances and were later venerated, though never canonized. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; JPA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'. By examining these cults the richness of political culture is revealed, and insights offered into the ways in which belief, worship, social and civic identities, and political language and practice were continuously constructed and re-constructed.
This book explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'. By examining these cults the richness of political culture is revealed, and insights offered into the ways in which belief, worship, social and civic identities, and political language and practice were continuously constructed and re-constructed.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349354702
SKU
V9781349354702
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99-15
About Danna Piroyansky
DANNA PIROYANSKY is a graduate of the University of London, UK (2005). She has published several articles in the field of late medieval English political culture, and teaches medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is now working on her second book.
Reviews for Martyrs in the Making
'Piroyansky makes good use of chronicles and hagiographies as well as prayers and poems but she also effectively utilises manuscript illuminations, paintings, sculpture and stained glass windows. In doing so, Piroyansky has provided the fullest account of the political martyrs and their cults. Some of her observations and arguments have important ramifications for understanding the process of canonisation and cult ... Read more