Writing holiness : genre and reception across medieval hagiography / Edited by Jessica Barr and Barbara Zimbalist.

Other author Barr, Jessica (Medieval literature scholar), editor.
Other author Zimbalist, Barbara, editor.
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PublicationTurnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2023.
Description281 pages ; 24cm.
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SeriesCursor mundi
Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 43. ^A1143112
Contents Helena on the Move: The Makings of a Medieval Saint / Marianne Ritsema van Eck -- From Holy Flesh to Holy Houses: The Late Medieval Rise of Non-Corporeal Relics in the March of Ancona / Bianca Lopez -- 'Fluvius autem de Corde Dei égredibatur': Medicalised Discourse and Holy Women's Writing at Helfta and Siena / Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa -- Holy Families and Vowed Life: The Legends of East Anglian Sister Saints in a Seventeenth-Century English Manuscript / Jenny C. Bledsoe -- Saints in the Exempla of the Middle English Mirror: Rewriting Accounts of Saints Fursey, Cecilia, Thais, and Macarius / Christine Cooper-Rompato -- Hybrid Devotion: Writing the Life of Christ Across Genre / Caitlin Koford -- Tarsiana and the Redemption of Captives: The Saintly Princess as Liberator in the Early Castilian Apollonius of Tyre Legend / Matthew Desing -- Lost in Translation? Hagiographic Redactions Crossing Language Borders / Racha Kirakosian -- Translating Raymond of Capua's Life of Catherine of Siena in Fifteenth-Century England and Germany / Steven Rozenski -- 'She Said': Female Agency and Voice in Middle English Hagiographic Accounts / Jennifer N. Brown.
Abstract Recent years have seen innovative approaches to the literatures of sanctity through emergent theoretical discourses, such as disability studies and trans theory. At the same time, traditional methodologies such as manuscript studies and reception history continue to generate new perspectives on the production, circulation, and reception of the sacred textual canon.Through ten unique contributions that draw from both new and established theories and methodologies, this volume charts the development, movement, and reception of Christian hagiographic texts in localities ranging from the Iberian Peninsula to the Scandinavian Archipelago from the early to the late Middle Ages. Each chapter traces hagiographic development over generic, temporal, cultural, and linguistic boundaries, and considers the broader contours of the sacred imaginary that come into view as a result of such critically intersectional inquiry.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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