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The sacred and the sinister : studies in medieval religion and magic /

"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 Euro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Collins, David J., 1965- (Editor , Contribuidor), Bailey, Michael David, 1971- (Contribuidor), Bain, Kristi Woodward, 1978- (Contribuidor), Callan, Maeve Brigid, 1970- (Contribuidor), Casteen, Elizabeth, 1979- (Contribuidor), Fanger, Claire (Contribuidor), Field, Sean L. (Sean Linscott), 1970- (Contribuidor), Koenig, Anne M. (Contribuidor), Mesler, Katelyn (Contribuidor), Page, Sophie, 1972- (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : flirting between heaven and hell / David J. Collins
  • 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 / Claire Fanger
  • The sources and significance of Stefania's New Statement on Margherita Colonna's Perfection of the Virtues / Sean L. Field
  • Materializing conflict : how parish communities remember their medieval pasts / Kristi Woodward Bain
  • Rape and rapture : violence, ambiguity, and Raptus in medieval thought / Elizabeth Casteen
  • Syneisaktism : sacred partnership and sinister scandal / Maeve B. Callan
  • Was magic a religious movement? / Michael D. Bailey
  • The jurisdiction of medieval inquisitors over Jews and Muslims : Nicholas Eymeric's Contra infideles demones invocantes / Katelyn Mesler
  • Magicking madness : secret workings and public narratives of disordered minds in late medieval Germany / Anne M. Koenig
  • A late medieval demonic invasion of the heavens / Sophie Page
  • Scholastics, stars, and magi : Albert the Great on Matthew 2 / David J. Collins.
  • Introduction: Flirting between heaven and hell / David J. Collins
  • Extreme sanctity at the turn of the thirteenth century : the metamorphosis of body and community in the vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of Assissi / Claire Fanger
  • The sources and significance of Stefania's New statement on Margherita Colonna's Perfection of the virtues / Sean L. Field
  • Materializing conflict : how parish communities remember their medieval pasts / Kristi Woodward Bain
  • Rape and rapture : violence, ambiguity, and raptus in medieval thought / Elizabeth Casteen
  • Syneisaktism : sacred partnership and sinister scandal / Maeve B. Callan
  • Was magic a religious movement? / Michael D. Bailey
  • The jurisdiction of medieval inquisitors over Jews and Muslims : Nicholas Eymeric's Contra infideles demones invocantes / Katelyn Mesler
  • Magicking madness : secret workings and public narratives of disordered minds in late medieval Germany / Anne M. Koenig
  • A late medieval demonic invasion of the heavens / Sophie Page
  • Scholastics, stars, and magi : Albert the Great on Matthew 2 / David J. Collins.