Graham Jones (7) (1943–)

The Trans-National Database and Atlas of Saints' Cults seeks to put the study of saints' cults on a scientific footing, and to build what has never before been attempted: an international inventory of religious devotion at the most local level, comprehensively recording instances of dedication in every town and village, every church - and at every period. This book gathers for the first time data and discussion of the sources for dedications across large areas of Europe and beyond. The authors are scholars working in a number of disciplines, but sharing an expertise in religious history and culture. There are sixteen essays in this book, considering cults from the Netherlands, Transylvania, Slavonia, Germany, England & Wales, Iceland, France, Italy, Karelia, Egypt, Finland, Spain and the New World. Saints of Europe is edited by TASC's director, Graham Jones, lecturer in English topography in the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester.… (meer)