The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- In the Name of Saints Peter and Paul
- Popes, Conversion, and Sainthood in Western Christianity
- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Kirsi Salonen, and Kurt Villads Jensen
- I – Papal Administration
- The Cost of Grace
- The Composition Fees in the Penitentiary, c. 1450-1500
- Career Prospects of Minor Curialists in the Fifteenth Century
- The Case of Petrus Profilt
- A Criminal Trial at the Court of the Chamber Auditor
- An Analysis of a registrum from 1515-1516 in the Danish National Archives
- II – Saints and Miracles
- The Power of the Saints and the Authority of the Popes
- The History of Sainthood and Late Medieval Canonization Processes
- Velut Alter Alexius
- The Saint Alexis Model in Medieval Hagiography
- Judicium Medicine and Judicium Sanctitatis
- Medical Doctors in the Canonization Process of Nicholas of Tolentino (1325): Experts Subject to the Inquisitorial Logic
- Heavenly Healing or Failure of Faith?
- Partial Cures in Later Medieval Canonization Processes
- III – Crusades and Conversion
- Servi Beatae Marie Virginis
- Christians and Pagans in Henry’s Chronicle of Livonia
- Holy War – Holy Wrath!
- Baltic Wars Between Regulated Warfare and Total Annihilation Around 1200
- The Swedish Expeditions (‘Crusades’) Towards Finland Reconsidered
- Index
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