The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950 : : Between Saints and Celebrities / / Tine Van Osselaer [and three others].

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 167
• VerfasserIn: Van Osselaer, Tine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Numen numerus ; Volume 167.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• 1 Stigmatics
• Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers,
• in collaboration with Andrea Graus
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Tracing Stigmata
• 3 The Invention of "Stigmatics"
• 4 Building Blocks
• 2 Saints and Celebrities
• Tine Van Osselaer
• 1 Saints in the Spotlight
• 2 The Scale of Fame: Transnational and Comparative Approach
• 3 Religious Celebrities
• 4 An Interactive Approach
• 3 On Stigmata, Suffering and Sanctity
• Tine Van Osselaer
• 1 Theodor Nolde's Visit
• 2 The "Spectacle" of the Holy Wounds
• 3 The Meaning of Suffering
• 4 The Effect of Suffering on the Visitors
• 4 Visiting Stigmatics and Their Promotion from the Ground Up The Devotees, the Unofficial Movements and the Episcopate in France
• Andrea Graus
• 1 French Stigmatics and Visitors' Expectations
• 2 Inside the Fridays of Passion
• 3 The Diocesan Response to the Visits
• 4 The Visitors' Unofficial Movements
• 5 Conclusions
• 5 Selling Sensation, Creating Sanctity The Visual and Material Culture of "Stigmatics"
• Tine Van Osselaer
• 1 In the Public Eye
• 2 Commerce and Devotion
• 3 Capturing Corporeal Mysticism
• 4 Creativity after Death
• 5 Conclusions
• 6 Stigmatics, Politics and the Law On Fake Stigmata and "Self-styled" Sanctity in Spain and France
• Andrea Graus
• 1 Stigmatics and Political Symbolism
• 2 Sor Patrocinio, Rosette Tamisier and the "Two Spains/Frances"
• 3 The Law and the Public Debunking of Stigmatics
• 4 Fake Stigmata and Self-styled Sanctity in the Anticlerical Press
• 5 Conclusions
• 7 Stigmatized Blood in the Vatican Courts Religious Response and Strategy
• Leonardo Rossi
• 1 Introduction: An Ambiguous Relationship
• 2 The Vatican Perspective
• 3 Examining Stigmatics
• 4 Conclusions
• 8 Conclusion
• Tine Van Osselaer
• 1 A Visible Type
• 2 New Types and the Scale of Their Circulation
• 3 Suggestions for Further Research
• Bibliography
• Biographical Dictionary of Stigmatics
• Index.