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Cover 1 Half Title, Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of figures 8 List of contributors 9 Preface 12 Introduction: thinking with saints 14 1. Paul 42 2. The Virgin Mary 57 3. Claudia Rufina 73 4. Patrick 90 5. Thomas Becket 105 6. Thomas More 125 7. Ignatius Loyola 140 8. English Catholic martyrs 157 9. Richard Baxter 174 10. The Scottish Covenanters 190 11. John and Mary Fletcher 206 12. William Wilberforce and ‘the Saints’ 222 13. Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Martin 239 14. John Henry Newman’s Lives of the English Saints 258 15. Thérèse of Lisieux 275 Index 292 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526100221,Language:English,OCLC:981898076 This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Br
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- Author
- Gareth Atkins; Magdalene College (University of Cambridge); Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526100238
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Christian
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