Gecser, Ottó, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők, Katalin Szende, eds. 2011. Promoting the Saints – Cults and their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period – Essays in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay for his 60th Birthday. Budapest: Central European University Press. 325 pp. Illus.

Kathleen V Kish

doi:10.5195/ahea.2014.151

Abstract

Gecser, Ottó, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők, Katalin Szende, eds. 2011. Promoting the Saints – Cults and their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period – Essays in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay for his 60th Birthday. Budapest: Central European University Press. 325 pp. Illus. Reviewed by Kathleen V. Kish, San Diego State University, California

Highlights

San Diego State University, California. This stimulating collection of twenty-two essays draws its inspiration from the rich research record of its dedicatee, Gábor Klaniczay of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the Central European University (CEU), both in Budapest, whose eclectic scholarly output in historical and medieval studies is like a beacon, inviting colleagues and students alike to plumb the socio-cultural context of saints
The types of analyses represented in this volume are likewise diverse, ranging from literary analysis through art history to historical anthropology
Christopher after 1700 (Benedek Láng, “Saint Christopher: The Patron of Treasure Hunters,” 305-10). This volume’s breadth -- of both time and space -- is a tribute to the innovative scholarly oeuvre of Klaniczay, which spans the history of the Long Middle Ages, viewed in the context of cultural history or historical anthropology of societies and civilizations

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Promoting the Saints – Cults and their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period – Essays in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay for his 60th Birthday.

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