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By Donald Weinstein

In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell study the lives of 864 saints who lived among one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity favourite in past due medieval and early smooth Europe. in addition they offer a considerable physique of data at the humans between whom the saints lived and via whom they got here to be commemorated. within the first half, the authors provide shut attention to what the saints' lives display approximately youth, formative years, and maturity; the effect of spiritual concept upon family members bonds; and family members impacts upon spiritual habit. the second one half offers a composite photo of piety and its altering configuration in Latin Christendom. With the help of statistical research, the authors solution questions related to the preferred conception of holiness, social type, and gender.

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