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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Sainthood"”.
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Honor, not sainthood : interpreting scandals and personal flaws in presidential homes, museums and libraries.
The inauguration of President Barack Obama as President of the United States underscored the reality of the different kinds of men who occupied the Oval Office. In many cases, these men have been put on a high pedestal by staff who operate the homes, museums and libraries which tell the story of …
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Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden : The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni
The doctoral dissertation Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden: The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni examines the canonization process cases of two medieval Swedish bishops, Brynolphus Algoti of Skara (ca. 1240–1317) and Nicolaus Hermanni of Linköping …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St …
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Blurring the Lines: Private and Public Dissection in Renaissance Italy
… individual's body that would confirm his or her sainthood, and to diagnose diseases which could have negative implications for the future of a family. Public dissections, on the other hand, were performed in university settings as a demonstrative and didactic technique, as well as a sort of …
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Making the martyr: the liturgical persona of Saint Thomas Becket in visual imagery
… actions did not fit tightly conceived notions of sainthood, and several members of the English nobility and clergy probably would rather have forgotten him after his death. To bridge the gap between what people knew of Becket and a their conceptions of what a saintly martyr should be, the …
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Canonizing Le Corbusier: The Making of an Architectural Icon as Colonial Hegemony
… achieving the architectural status of canonical sainthood. No other architect had been so completely enshrined on UNESCO’s list. The discussions and debates centered on this landmark decision provide evidence regarding how and why Le Corbusier’s figuration persists and is sustained. The …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… the necessity of Juliet’s death in Juliet’s sainthood or her poetic disruption of Petrarchan spiritual love. Shakespeare critiques Petrarchism in Romeo and Juliet by showing Juliet’s death as a result of Romeo’s poetic habits and showing Juliet as a disruptive poet who is aware of the …
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The Church in the Dramas of T. S. Eliot
… persons who are called to martyrdom and sainthood. Eliot's acceptance of the material world and comfort with its society brings a steady transformation of his spiritual vision when at the end of his dramas the world is one of common people who strive to find meaning and "make the best of …
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… and in JanetFrame's model of "postmodern sainthood." Mystical imagery (such as darkness andlight, or the bottomless well) is employed to articulate the revealing "contradictions"of female experience and lesbian and feminist identity, and to dismantle thepatriarchal theological language …
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'God Does Not Regard Your Forms': Gender and Literary Representation in the Works of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār Nīshāpūrī
… Islamicate sexualities and the construction of sainthood in Islam.
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… images evolved from promoting Edward’s style of sainthood and kingship to providing overt divine support for Richard’s reign. This image study illuminates the symbolic purpose of Edward in Medieval English society and how his image was constructed and embraced by Westminster Abbey and the …
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Sanctity in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Vita Sancti Oswaldi
… of, and perhaps even qualifications for, sainthood, and constructed the sanctity of their monastic patrons accordingly. The fundamental basis for both Æthelwold's and Oswald's claim to sanctity is the same: it was their roles as Benedictine monks and promoters of Benedictine monasticism …
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Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Kenosis: The Pathway to Human Agency
… The Christological and Trinitarian shape of sainthood and spirituality are explored in the final two chapters. Balthasar's treatment of St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and Elisabeth of the Trinity are examples of how the kenotic motif is revealed in the lives of the saints. The …
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Journeys to holiness : lay sanctity in the Central Middle Ages, c.970-c.1120
… In fact lay sanctity was a complex category of sainthood that both underscores and challenges historians’ narratives of this reform. The principal, linking feature of its texts is found to be the saints’ dedication to pilgrimage and voluntary exile at a time when the laity were increasingly …
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The beatification of Mary MacKillop: What it reveals of experiences of women in the contemporary Australian Catholic Church
… have major difficulty with the whole concept of sainthood, the processes of canonisation, the publicity and commercialisation associated with the beatification and the role of the Pope within it, given his theology in relation to women. Their resistance however was restrained by the desire not to …
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Transitional holiness in the twelfth century: the social and spiritual identity of Domina Christina of Markyate
… category for receiving such distinction was sainthood, Christina was cast, not especially successfully, as a saint.
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A Confronting of the Gaze: A Study of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order, and its Communities in Amman, Jordan and Calgary, Canada
This study focuses on the history, teachings and culture of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi order whose roots in North Africa emerge in mid-19th century Palestine with the arrival of its founder, Shaykh Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti. To this end, this thesis constructs the biographies of the founder …