Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • part Part I Psychology and biology
  • chapter 2 Heroic asceticism and self-injurious behavior
  • chapter 3 Mysticism and altered states of consciousness
  • chapter 4 Pain and laceration of the flesh
  • chapter 5 Sleep deprivation
  • chapter 6 Fasting and starvation
  • part Part II History
  • chapter 7 Historical methods: selecting a database
  • chapter 8 Pathways to holiness
  • chapter 9 Radegund
  • chapter 10 Beatrice of nazareth
  • chapter 11 Beatrice of ornacieux
  • chapter 12 Henry suso
  • chapter 13 Mental illness, hysteria, and mysticism
  • chapter 14 Conclusion.