Saint Louis 0268033811, 9780268033811

Life of a king, life of a saint, life of a man. In this work, Jacques LeGoff, one of the truly great medieval historian

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English Pages 947 [911] Year 2009

Table of contents :
Contents
TranslatorÌs Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I The Life of Saint Louis
From Birth to Marriage
From Marriage to the Crusade
The Crusade and the Stay in the Holy Land
From One Crusade to the Next and Death
Toward Sainthood
II The Production of Royal Memory: Did Saint Louis Exist?
The King from the Official Documents
The King of the Mendicant Hagiographers
The King of Saint-Denis
The King of the Exempla
Prefigurations of Saint Louis in the Old Testament
The King of the Mirrors of the Princes
The King of the Foreign Chroniclers
The King of Commonplace Ideas
The "Real" Louis IX of Joinville
Saint Louis
III Saint Louis, The Unique and Ideal King
Saint Louis in Space and Time
Words and Images
Words and Gestures
The King's Three Functions
Saint Louis
Saint Louis and His Family
Saint Louis' Religion
Conflicts and Criticisms
Saint Louis, Sacred King, Thaumaturge, and Saint
The Suffering King, The Christ King
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Chronology
Notes
List of Abridged Titles
Bibliography

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