The Sacred and the Sinister : : Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic /

The Sacred and the Sinister : : Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic / / ed. by David J. Collins, S. J.

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Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, wh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Bailey, Michael D.,
Bain, Kristi Woodward,
Callan, Maeve B.,
Casteen, Elizabeth,
Collins, David J.,
Fanger, Claire,
Field, Sean L.,
Koenig, Anne M.,
Mesler, Katelyn,
Page, Sophie,
HerausgeberIn:
Collins, S. J., David J.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 6 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Flirting Between Heaven and Hell
  • Part 1: Traditional Holiness
  • 1 Extreme Sanctity at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Metamorphosis of Body and Community in the Vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of Assisi
  • 2 The Sources and Significance of Stefania’s New Statement on Margherita Colonna’s Perfection of the Virtues
  • Part 2: Conflicts over the Holy
  • 3 Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities Remember Their Medieval Pasts
  • 4 Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought
  • 5 Syneisaktism: Sacred Partnership and Sinister Scandal
  • Part 3: Identifying and Grappling with the Unholy
  • 6 Was Magic a Religious Movement
  • 7 The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric’s Contra infideles demones invocantes
  • 8 Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval Germany
  • Part 4: Magic and the Cosmos
  • 9 A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the Heavens
  • 10 Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2
  • Selected bibliography
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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