Het wonder van Sint-Maarten
What makes a happy city? How can a city respond adequately and resiliently to a crisis disrupting civic society? Answers to these timeless questions differ through time. A Miracle of St Martin – Utrecht a Happy City tells the story of Utrecht and St Martin. At the occasion of Utrecht’s 900th anniver...
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| description | What makes a happy city? How can a city respond adequately and resiliently to a crisis disrupting civic society? Answers to these timeless questions differ through time. A Miracle of St Martin – Utrecht a Happy City tells the story of Utrecht and St Martin. At the occasion of Utrecht’s 900th anniversary as a free city, the book elucidates how the bond between Utrecht and its patron saint since the early Middle Ages inspired people to contribute to a happy city.
The book is designed as a diptych, focusing first on St Martin’s Utrecht patronage around the year 900, when the settlement built within the walls of the former Roman castellum endured difficult times due to political and climatological troubles. Bishop Radbod (899/900-917) calls upon his fellow citizens to cultivate the commemoration of St Martin and to appeal to the saintly figure in times of hardship. The book includes a translation of Radbod’s Miracle Story of St Martin and unravels the secrets of his Gregorian office for the summer feast of St Martin’s Translation on July 4th.
The second part of the book focuses on St Martin’s role in the multicultural twenty-first-century city of Utrecht. The popular St Martin’s Parade establishes a new celebration of the saint with music, street art and a parade of lights. Reflecting on this newly (re-)invented tradition we discover St Martin anew as a symbolic figure representing values of the inclusive city in past and present.
The book is lavishly illustrated with images of St Martin and his cult in medieval and modern-day Utrecht. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-876622025-03-15T19:41:34Z Het wonder van Sint-Maarten Rose, Els St Martin, medieval Utrecht, urban patronage, medieval music, civic cult of saints What makes a happy city? How can a city respond adequately and resiliently to a crisis disrupting civic society? Answers to these timeless questions differ through time. A Miracle of St Martin – Utrecht a Happy City tells the story of Utrecht and St Martin. At the occasion of Utrecht’s 900th anniversary as a free city, the book elucidates how the bond between Utrecht and its patron saint since the early Middle Ages inspired people to contribute to a happy city. The book is designed as a diptych, focusing first on St Martin’s Utrecht patronage around the year 900, when the settlement built within the walls of the former Roman castellum endured difficult times due to political and climatological troubles. Bishop Radbod (899/900-917) calls upon his fellow citizens to cultivate the commemoration of St Martin and to appeal to the saintly figure in times of hardship. The book includes a translation of Radbod’s Miracle Story of St Martin and unravels the secrets of his Gregorian office for the summer feast of St Martin’s Translation on July 4th. The second part of the book focuses on St Martin’s role in the multicultural twenty-first-century city of Utrecht. The popular St Martin’s Parade establishes a new celebration of the saint with music, street art and a parade of lights. Reflecting on this newly (re-)invented tradition we discover St Martin anew as a symbolic figure representing values of the inclusive city in past and present. The book is lavishly illustrated with images of St Martin and his cult in medieval and modern-day Utrecht. 2022-07-12T04:03:15Z 2022-07-12T04:03:15Z 2022-07-11T09:45:30Z 2022 book OCN: 1368421247 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57282 9789463722766 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/87662 dut open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57282/1/9789463722766.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57282/1/9789463722766.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57282/1/9789463722766.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463722766 10.5117/9789463722766 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789463722766 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 240 Amsterdam open access |
| spellingShingle | St Martin, medieval Utrecht, urban patronage, medieval music, civic cult of saints Het wonder van Sint-Maarten |
| title | Het wonder van Sint-Maarten |
| title_full | Het wonder van Sint-Maarten |
| title_fullStr | Het wonder van Sint-Maarten |
| title_full_unstemmed | Het wonder van Sint-Maarten |
| title_short | Het wonder van Sint-Maarten |
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| topic | St Martin, medieval Utrecht, urban patronage, medieval music, civic cult of saints |
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