Oxford University Press

An examination of the cult of Sainte Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris. Using hagiographical and liturgical documents, as well as municipal, ecclesiastical and notarial records, it analyzes the religious, social and political contexts of public devotion in the early modern city. main line of argument here has to do with how scholastics perceived humanists to be undermining religious authority, whether by rhetorical frills not in keeping with the plain speech of a humble Christian or by proposing emendations to the Latin Vulgate. These are themes that permit Rummel to draw on her unparalleled grasp of the controversies between Erasmus and his Catholic critics and her sensitivity to the genres of classical rhetoric, including epideictic literature. This study should now be the first work consulted on the subject." breadth of is striking. Earlier studies tended to focus on either the 'Renaissance' or 'Reformation' phases of the debate; hers works across this artificial divide with masterful ease and to good purpose.. .[An] elegant and lucid