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Medieval saints and modern screens : divine visions as cinematic experience /

The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liège" corpus presents biographies filled with dramatic visions of God and intense physical unions with Christ. The texts that make up the collection demonstrate the problematic division of body and soul in the pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spencer-Hall, Alicia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Colección:Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Ecstatic cinema, cinematic ecstasy
  • Play/pause/rewind : temporalities in flux
  • The caress of the divine gaze
  • The Xtian factor, or How to manufacture a medieval saint
  • My avatar, my soul : when mystics log on
  • Conclusion : The living Veronicas of Liège.