CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Konrád, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | The Representation of the Saints of the Mendicant Orders in Late Medieval Hungary |
| Summary | The dissertation examined the ways and means used by the Franciscan and the Dominican Orders for introducing, appropriating, and preserving the memory of the saints and blessed particularly venerated by their own orders in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary between the early thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition, it also explored how the fame of local saintly figures reached Italy and found their way to works that circulated widely, and through which they reached eventually the convents of these two orders in different parts of Europe. Using hagiographic and sermon literature, miracle collections, liturgical books, chronicles of the orders, charters, as well as visual representations in private and public spheres, the research aimed at providing a more complex understanding of how these saintly figures were presented to and were perceived by different audiences, with a special attention to the activities of the friars whose endeavour was supported by the royal house and the nobility from time to time. I have presented eleven canonized saints and more than a dozen blessed of these two orders. Since with the exception of Louis of Toulouse none of the saints who gained papal recognition had special connection to Hungary, I assumed that the investigation of the traces of the veneration (and in some cases, cult) of these “imported” new saints taking into account a wide range of sources would show some instructive results and supply additional details to the “saintly politics” of the two great mendicant orders and other agents as well besides the well-known cases of the Dominican nun Margaret of Hungary (d.1270) and the Observant Franciscan John of Capistrano (d.1456). |
| Supervisor | Gábor Klaniczay |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/konrad_eszter.pdf |
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