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dc.contributor.editorRose, Els
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-11T09:45:30Z
dc.date.available2022-07-11T09:45:30Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57282
dc.description.abstractWhat 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.en_US
dc.languageDutchen_US
dc.subject.otherSt Martin, medieval Utrecht, urban patronage, medieval music, civic cult of saintsen_US
dc.titleHet wonder van Sint-Maartenen_US
dc.title.alternativeUtrecht een gelukkige staden_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463722766en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857aen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByda087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789463722766en_US
oapen.collectionDutch Research Council (NWO)en_US
oapen.pages240en_US
oapen.place.publicationAmsterdamen_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Deze publicatie is tot stand gekomen met steun van: Nederlandse organisatie voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek NWO, Elise Mathilde Fonds, Stichting Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Stichting Sormani Fonds, Van Baaren Stichting, K.F. Hein Fonds, Stichting Het Nuyensfonds, Stichting Zonneweelde, Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds, Carel Nengerman Fonds, Stichting Professor van Winter Fonds, Mien van ‘t Sant Fonds, Mr. Paul de Gruyter Fonds, Provincie Utrecht.


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