Floral Arrangements
Compilations of Saints’ Lives in Early Modern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12622827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan E Greenwood (0000-0002-4558-6207, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 181-203 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Early Modern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1385-3783 • E-ISSN: 1570-0658 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700658-12342577 |
| OpenAlex | W2811249111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Flores sanctorum ( Flowers of the Saints , hereafter flowers) were a uniquely Iberian genre immersed in European efforts to collect the lives of saints and then arrange them according to the liturgical year. Although one of the first books printed in Spain, the genre went into decline by the mid-sixteenth century due to ongoing Inquisitorial censure. Flowers, however, grew again thanks to Alonso de Villegas and later Pedro de Ribadeneyra. This duo’s use of the liturgy resulted in the differentiation between the saints in the Breviary and the extravagantes (wanderers), holy persons wandering outside of the official calendar prepared by the Roman Church. To cultivate their flowers, Villegas and Ribadeneyra relied on metaphrasis , a method started by Symeon Metaphrastes, a Byzantine cleric and wanderer from the tenth century. While thoroughly Iberian, flowers extended beyond the Peninsula to incorporate practices from the Catholic and Eastern churches
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Balkan peninsula · Byzantine architecture · Liturgy · Peninsula · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |