HISTORY 70B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nitpicking, Hagiography, Merovingian Dynasty
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Day 7: margaret of scotland & elizabeth of. 10:12 pm: unique identities established and attached to the local dynasties. Made up by all this tiny little kingdoms. Good understanding of past relationship to rome but they developed their own understandings of who they were. Violent process of colonization within europe (they colonize themselves: argument: st. margaret is part of this process. Life of margaret c. 1100: extremely pious but other than that ordinary woman a saint, queen governed herself, if we"re thinking of radegund and we see this portrayal of margaret"s saintliness: Not a lot of description of her miracles. She goes to church but she doesn"t cure everything. She only has one miracle in her life written about her: dropped book in water and it didn"t get hurt or anything. She cares a lot about the world and doing her piety on the side while. Radegund kind of removed herself from the world to practice religion.
