Thaúmata
Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- ISBN 9789004738676
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 650 g
- Language English 689
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
Index
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