Introduction; the road to Ilok; a portrait of the town; the death and the corpse; the beginnings of the canonization campaign, 1456-1463; the canonization campaign from the early 1460s to 1526; a morphology of Capistranean miracles; some historical aspects of the miracles post mortem; conclusion.
Stanko Andrić is senior researcher at the Croatian Institute of History in Slavonski Brod. After his major study on The Miracles of St. John Capistran (Budapest–New York: CEU Press, 2000), the focus of his research has shifted to the history of Slavonia and Syrmia from late Antiquity until the Ottoman period. Apart from being a historian, he is also an acclaimed writer.
"Andric bring to his topic not simply a detailed knowledge of the
local setting but also a keen command of the medievalist's
fundamental tools... His reconstruction of the dates and
circumstances of composition of these core sources is entirely
convincing, and no future scholar writing about St. John Capistran
will be able to (or want to) ignore Andric's work... it is a
fundamental study (one is tempted to say the fundamental study) of
Capistran's cult in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries..."
*Speculum*
"In 1462 Matthias Corvinus wrote to Pius II about a problem in the
Hungarian kingdom surrounding the late Observan Franciscan preacher
John Capistran (1386-1456). Corvinus noted the friar was being
venerated as a saint. Something was amiss. Either common people
were damned in ignorance or Capistran was being denied due honor.
Pius did nothing, then promptly died. A decade passed. Elizabeth
Szilagyi, widow of John Hunyadi, again addressed the pontiff, this
time Sixtus IV, with an urgent message that Capistran continued
posthumously to "preach with his miracles" and should be canonized.
... Capistran had been a healer, raiser of the dead, controller of
weather, visionary, prophet, exorcist, veterinarian, crusader, and
general thaumaturge. ... A movement for canonization began upon his
death; yet his postmortem miracles surpass even those in vita. In
the fifteenth century, as many as 500 miracle stories may have been
catalogued, but not everyone was impressed. ... Capistran became a
saint, however, despite these objections, although the process did
not culminate until 1690. ... Stanko Andric seeks to nuance our
understanding of this subject through his careful study of John
Capistran based upon the manuscripts of Capistranean miracles in
Rome, Paris, Venice, and Naples. The book reveals enormous
erudition supported by extensive and intimate manuscript knowledge.
Andric endeavours to solve the philological riddle of the
Capistranean miracle collections, widely known to comprise one of
the more complex medieval hagiographies. The results are
impressive."
*Slavic Review*
"...an important contribution to Hungarian social history, but also
of value for the detailed analysis of the texts, many of which are
published for the first time in an appendix."
*Medium Aevum*
"Das Buch reiht sich ein in die in den 1970er Jahren einsetzenden
interessanten Bestrebungen, Wunderberichte als historische
Dokumente mit nicht nur teologischem, sondern auch kulturellem und
soziologischem Gehalt zu nehmen, was durchaus zu begrüßen ist. Das
Buch ist somit auch für die spätmittelalterliche Ordensgesichte
wichtig, zugleich für die Geschichte der Päpste und ker Kreuzzüge
und natürlich auch für die Geschichte des Balkans im MA."
*Mediaevistik*
"... une étude solide, fondée sur un rigoureux inventaire de
sources jusqu'a présent peu connues."
*Analecta Bollandiana*
"Andric's chief merit is in establishing the authorship and
circumstances of composition of each collection through an
exhaustive analysis of the manuscripts and an examination of their
textual relationship. With great erudition, he takes the readers
through his reasoning step by step, giving detailed proofs both in
the text and in ample appendixes."
*American Historical Review*
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