Excessive Saints : : Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré's Mystical Hagiographies / / Rachel J. D. Smith.
For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender, Theory, and Religion
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: HAGIOGRAPHICAL THEOLOGY - MAKING HOLY BODIES FROM THE WORD
- 1. THOMAS OF CANTIMPRÉ: HIS LIFE AND LITERARY ACTIVITY
- 2. "WITH WONDROUS HORROR SHE FLED": DISSIMILARITY AND SANCTITY IN THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING
- 3. GENDERING PARTICULARITY: A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING AND THE LIFE OF ABBOT JOHN OF CANTIMPRÉ
- 4. A QUESTION OF PROOF: AUGUSTINE AND THE READING OF HAGIOGRAPHY
- 5. LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND THE SAINTLY BODY
- 6. THE USES OF ASTONISHMENT: APOPHASIS AND THE WRITING OF MYSTICAL HAGIOGRAPHY
- 7. PRODUCING THE BODY OF GOD: EXEMPLARY TEACHING, JEWISH CARNALITY, AND CHRISTIAN DOUBT IN THE BONUM UNIVERSALE DE APIBUS
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX