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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 period and also reveal the potential of text to transmit visual experiences. This book explores those qualities of the texts using the latest developments in film theory, taking up such topics as the relationship of film to mortality, embodied spectatorship, celebrity studies, and digital environments |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289, filmography (pages 289-291), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048532179 9048532175 9789048551293 9048551293 |
| Access: | Open Access |