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December 22, 2008
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, '92
The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages, Cornell University Press, 2008.
The book: Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the foremost saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis became the centerpiece of an ideological program that buttressed the ongoing political consolidation of France and underscored Capetian claims of sacred kingship. This book reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to the monarch's canonization and the consolidation and spread of his cult.
The author: M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is assistant dean of faculty for pre-major advising and adjunct assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College.
Posted by lingjiex at December 22, 2008 07:05 PM