Thaúmata

Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004738676 (ISBN)

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This volume adresses current and innovative approaches to the study of sainthood, gathering international scholars to present critically aware methodologies on Hagiography and hagiographic sources over different spatial and chronological contexts.

Thaúmata: Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies gathers renowned international scholars to reflect and explore the study of Hagiography and its sources. Breaking through chronological and spatial boundaries, this compelling volume critically examines sanctity, holy figures, and the study of them across diverse cultures, periods, and sources. Offering fresh insights and innovative methodologies while acknowledging the most established perspectives, Thaúmata broadens our understanding of holiness in history, making it an indispensable resource for academics in Religious Studies and related fields.

Aitor Boada-Benito, Ph.D. (2024), Complutense University (Madrid), is member of the Institute for Religious Studies at that institution. He specializes in the study of sainthood in Late Antiquity and serves as Section Editor for the journal Open Theology (De Gruyter).

AbbreviationsII

List of Tables and FiguresX

Notes on Contributors X

Introduction

Aitor Boada-Benito

1 Taxonomy, Titles, and the Critically Self-Aware Study of “Hagiography”

Massimo Rondolino

2 What Most Noble Servants Do: Feminine Performativity in Medieval Funerary Inscriptions

Sonia Madrid Medrano

3 Ritual Negotiations and Failure: Hagiography and the Articulation of Religious Dissent

Aitor Boada-Benito

4 The Sensoriality and Sensuality of the Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb in Their Earliest East Church Slavonic Hagiographies

Enrique Santos Marinas

5 Rewriting Saints’ Lives in Verse: Genre, Function and Compositional Strategies in Tetrastichs on St Theodore Stratilates of Theodore Prodromos

Matilde Casas Olea

6 Rewriting, Creation and Re-signification of the Marian Miracle at the End of the Middle Ages

Patricia Cañizares Ferriz

7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)

María Victoria Curto Hernández

8 A Life in Memory: María de San José’s Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of Ávila

Esther Borrego Gutiérrez

9 Saint Anne the Teacher: Women’s Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in Post-Tridentine Spain

Julia Lewandowska

10 Female Mystic Spirituality and Sensorial Devotions in Italy in the XVIII Century

Chiara Coletti

11 Incarnating Sanctity: Forms of Female Spirituality in Contemporary Religious Fiction

Ana Rita Gonçalves Soares

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Numen Book Series ; 180
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	650 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004738676 / 9789004738676
Zustand	Neuware