A Who's who of Your Ancestral Saints
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Introduction -- Pt. I. Twenty-four Medieval Europeans and their two hundred and seventy-five ancestral saints -- Pt. II. Saints who are direct ancestors; contents for Part II, profiles and lineages -- Pt. III. Saints who are aunts and uncles; contents for Part III, profiles and lineages -- List of abbreviations -- List of abbreviated sources -- About the author.
For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, Alan Koman's new book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and accompanied by lineages connected those saints to twenty-four of the great men and women of medieval Europe. Today, those twenty-four men and women have hundreds of millions of living descendants. The historical period covered by this work is vast. From St. Gregory "the Illuminator" (b. 256-d. 326) to St. Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (b. ca 1277-d. 22 March 1322), the saints presented in this book span ten centuries. Some were great men, such as Alfred "the Great," Bernard of Clairvaux, and Charlemagne; others, such as Elizabeth of Hungary, Marie of Brabant, and Odilia, led lives that are just as moving today as in their own time.
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PUBLISHED
Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 447 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780806318240
0806318244
SUBJECTS
Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian saints -- Genealogy.
Christian saints -- Biography.
Christian saints -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian saints -- Early works to 1800.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Hagiography.