Saints and their Cults: Studies in Religious Sociology, Folklore and History de Wilson, Stephen

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 435pp. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine (boards are strong, square and clean, slightly rounded at spine ends). Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Firmly bound. In its original, unclipped dust jacket (slightly toned on upper portion). Brings together ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, primarily a religious phenomenon, but said to have many and varied manifestations and functions, both religious and secular. Essays include those on St Besse; the Humiliation of saints; the politics of canonisation in the 13th century; canonised sainthood in the Catholic Church; Religious feeling and popular cults during the French Revolution; Cults of Saints in the churches of central Paris; and The Portuguese Romarias, etc.