Elizabeth, Queen and Saint: Fortleben of a centuries-old cult

Authors

António Manuel Ribeiro Rebelo
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1376-2704
Carlota Miranda Urbano
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-6792
Keywords: Saint Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal, Cult, Hagiography, History, Art History, Literature, Religion

Synopsis

The cult around the holiness and the relics of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal is a remarkable phenomenon, not only in the field of religion, but in the artistic, literary, social and political ones as well. Elizabeth or Isabel of Aragon was a most remarkable person in her time and the cult around her holiness and her relics would know a continuing and unstoppable advance. Even before the canonical recognition of her holiness and immediately after her death, she was considered by the faithful Christians, especially those of Coimbra, a most important intercessor with God. She had spent the last years of her life in this city where she decided to be buried. The beautiful tomb with her relics, the most tangible sign of the presence of the Holy Queen, turned into an important holy place of pilgrimage. This book studies the different dimensions of this phenomenon, from medieval to modern times: the theological implications of the cult of the relics, the study of the mendicant spirituality that inspired D. Isabel, the works of art, such as the Queen's first tomb, or the celebratory literature of her heroic figure, exploring the documental sources as well, which reveal the historical, social and political circumstances of the evolution of her cult at the Monastery of Santa Clara, the College of Arts, the University and in the city of Coimbra

Author Biographies

António Manuel Ribeiro Rebelo, University of Coimbra

António Manuel Ribeiro Rebelo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. He is a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies, Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. He has participated in several colloquia, congresses, working groups, in Portugal and abroad, and has been a member of the organizing committees of many of them. He has published more than a hundred titles, including works, articles, scientific translations, in the field of classical literature, medieval Latin philology, Renaissance Latin, Portuguese literature, ecdotics and didactics, as well as various news and reviews. He has participated in several scientific projects, having coordinated some of them. He belongs to the Editorial Board of several national and foreign journals and is a member of several national and international academic and scientific societies.

Carlota Miranda Urbano, University of Coimbra

Carlota Miranda Urbano is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra and a member of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the same University. She is a member of several scientific associations and has participated in several projects related to the study of Rhetoric, Hagiography and History of Education. She has a PhD in Neolatine Literature and has dedicated her research to the literary production of Portuguese humanism in the context of the College of the Society of Jesus in Coimbra, with a special interest in hagiographic texts, but addressing others from pedagogical texts to the oratory of circumstance, produced within the teaching and missionary action of that Religious Order. Among her publications are the edition and translation of unpublished texts, such as excerpts from the Latin epistology of Father António Vieira, or of D. Francisco Xavier de Meneses.

Isabel, Rainha e Santa
Published
July 24, 2020

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-1952-1
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-1952-1

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