The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 : between saints and celebrities /
"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 ph...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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Colección: | Numen book series,
volume 167 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.