Great Immortality

Preface

 Marko Juvan and Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson

 Acknowledgements

 List of Figures

 Notes on Contributors

 Introduction

 Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason

Part 1:

1 Sacral States: The Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular

 Joep Leerssen

2 Framing the Bones of Dante and Petrarch: Literary Cults and Scientific Discourses

 Harald Hendrix

Part 2:

3 Taming a Romantic: The Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz

 Roman Koropeckyj

4 The Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult

 Christian Noack

5 Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Prešeren

 Alenka Koron

6 Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement

 Andraž Jež

Part 3:

7 Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon

 David Fishelov

8 Jacint Verdaguer, a Catalan Cultural Saint

 Magí Sunyer and Jaume Subirana

9 “Altars of the Flemish Movement”: Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building

 Andreas Stynen

Part 4:

10 Hero or Traitor? The Cultural Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Beyond

 Simon Halink

11 Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia’s Cultural Saint and a Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church

 Bela Tsipuria

12 The Third Canonization of Njegoš, the National Poet of Montenegro

 Bojan Baskar

Part 5:

13 Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu’s Lateral Canonization

 Andrei Terian

14 Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plečnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification

 Luka Vidmar

15 From the Culture of Saints to the Saints of Culture: The Saint and the Writer between Life and Work

 Jernej Habjan

 Copyright of Figures

 Index of Names