{"title":"Conclusions","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":282640,"journal":{"name":"Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121412881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holy Infirmity and the Devotees","authors":"Jenni Kuuliala","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks.9","url":null,"abstract":"The final chapter of the book focuses on the saintly candidates’ devotees\u0000 and their various encounters with the infirm saint, as well as the attempts\u0000 and prospects for healing holy infirmity. It also analyses the\u0000 cultural significances of holy suffering. While the devotees gave varying\u0000 meanings to saints’ infirmities, they did not directly overlap with the\u0000 documents we have of their own suffering. Saints valued and cherished\u0000 their own infirmities, but they also helped, even medically, those of their\u0000 devotees who were ill or suffering. At the same time, it is likely that the\u0000 culturally internalized narratives of the benefits of infirmity and the\u0000 valorization of suffering had a therapeutic function in the same way as\u0000 miracle narratives.","PeriodicalId":282640,"journal":{"name":"Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124188845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patientia and the Borders of Holy Infirmity","authors":"Jenni Kuuliala","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xpqks.7","url":null,"abstract":"Saintly patience towards earthly tribulations is one of the key characteristics\u0000 of saints’ lives, and it was frequently investigated in canonization\u0000 inquests. The tribulations could include, for example, deaths of loved ones\u0000 or troubles with earthly rulers. In most canonization inquests the topic of\u0000 bodily infirmity, especially the saintly candidate’s patient attitude towards\u0000 it, was also investigated. However, the way such patience comes up in\u0000 the process varies greatly: it could be used and investigated to highlight\u0000 aspects of a saint’s life that the witnesses and the conductors of the hearing\u0000 considered important, such as preaching, spiritual raptures, or earthly\u0000 duties. Here the saint’s gender and status in society and the geographic\u0000 origins of their cult all played major roles.","PeriodicalId":282640,"journal":{"name":"Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117065127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}