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Fritz The Multifunctionality of a Medieval Hagiography

A historical case study of the "Gesta et Passio" and the making of the Danish royal Saint Cnut (c. 1100)
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-515-13600-6
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

A historical case study of the "Gesta et Passio" and the making of the Danish royal Saint Cnut (c. 1100)

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 27, 250 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Beiträge zur Hagiographie.

ISBN: 978-3-515-13600-6
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark



The 'Gesta et Passio' is a Latin hagiographic text written around 1112 by Ælnoth of Canterbury about the Danish king Cnut who was killed in 1086 and later venerated as St Cnut.

Due to its textual complexity Ælnoth's work has been considered heterogeneous and strangely structured. With her study Fiona Fritz aims to show that this complexity reflects the systematic multifunctionality of the text and that the text's construction afforded Ælnoth the opportunity to express his perception of contemporaneous ecclesiastical and secular political matters. Relevant textual functions include the construction of Cnut as a royal saint, propagating the cult of St Cnut, furthering ecclesiastical interests, presenting an ideology of kingship, and enhancing the legitimacy of the ruling dynasty.

The analysis of the text considers both the historical context of its production and various textual moves and strategies employed by the author. Over and above the results attained in relation to the 'Gesta et Passio' as an individual text, the present study can be taken as a general exploration of methods for the analysis of the potential of hagiographical texts for various functions and for multifunctionality.

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Fritz, Fiona
Fiona Fritz was a Research Assistant at Kiel University in the research project on “Holy Heroes – Heroic Saints” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2015 to 2017. Since 2018 she works at the Körber-Stiftung in the History and Politics department, since 2021 as Programme Director of eCommemoration, a project on digital memory culture.



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