Kupiec, pielgrzym, pustelnik : Godoryk z Finchale i jego niezwykła droga do świętości

doi:10.4467/20844069PH.15.004.3500

Kupiec, pielgrzym, pustelnik : Godoryk z Finchale i jego niezwykła droga do świętości

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punktacja MEiN [2015 B]: 15

title:	Kupiec, pielgrzym, pustelnik : Godoryk z Finchale i jego niezwykła droga do świętości
alternative title:	Merchant, pilgrim and a hermit : Godoric of Finchale and his unusual way to sanctity
author:	Mruk Wojciech
journal title:	Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prace Historyczne
volume:	142
issue:	1
date of publication :	2015
pages:	45-60
ISSN:	0083-4351
eISSN:	2084-4069
ISBN:	978-83-233-2940-3
series:	Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ISSN 0860-0139
DOI:	10.4467/20844069PH.15.004.3500
URL:	http://www.ejournals.eu/Prace-Historyczne/2015/Numer-1/art/5112/
date accessed:	2020-01-08
notes:	Streszcz. ang.
language:	Polish
journal language:	Polish
abstract in English:	Godric of Finchale (ca. 1065/1069-1170) was born in a peasant family in Walpole. He was a merchant who achieved great economic success and became a rich man. As a grown-up man he decided to become an independent recluse at Finchale, but after a few years he was assimilated into the community of monks of Durham. Godric spent around 50 years at Finchale and stayed there until his death. His ascetic life gained him the fame of ‘a saint man’. Before the end of the 12th century monks of Durham prepared three hagiographic texts about Godric. The authors concentrated not only on his life as a hermit but also put emphasis on the period when he was hard working very successfull and rich merchant who used to pray and visit holy places. Medieval hagiographers usually omitted in their texts the episodes which did not prove sanctity of their heroes, so it can be presumed that in the opinion of monks of Durham, Godric’s hard work and economic success were the first steps on his way to sanctity. Such statements in hagiographic texts written before the end of the 12th century allows us to treat the monks of Durham as the pioneers of new churchmen’s attitude to the growing merchant class.
keywords in Polish:	Godryk z Finchale, kult świętych, hagiografia, model świętości
keywords in English:	Godric of Finchale, cult of saints, hagiography, sanctity model
number of pulisher's sheets:	1,1
affiliation:	Wydział Historyczny
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper