Index of Subjects
affect see methodology
agency
female see female
human
11, 159â160, 228
lack of
37â38, 46, 244
material
39, 67â68
Amesha Spenta see Zoroastrianism
asceticism
21, 59â60, 181, 265
authority
and community
250
female see female
literary
112, 116
of the Holy Scriptures
112
political
66, 81
religious
18, 24, 54, 64, 81, 126, 228â229, 265, 285
sanctity as
45â46, 261â262
Bollandists (Society of)
4, 26
Byzantine
epigram cycles
104â105
hagiography
101â121 passim, 138â139
manuscript transmission
105â106
relations with the Sasanian Empire see Sasanian Empire
rhetoric and metrics
103, 114
comparative method see methodology
conversion
from Zoroastrianism
60â66
of Jews
140
spiritual
207
desire
for suffering
263â265
rejection of
287
spiritual
187, 291
devotion; imitatio Christi
devotion
and desire
184, 291
devotio moderna
155, 185
marian devotion
125â149 passim, 236, 247â248
objects of
258â260
penitential
180â181
sensorial
186, 260â262
spiritual
153â154, 289
transformation of
125
dermographism
266
discourse
ekphrasis
119
hagiographic
54â56
dissent
religious
52â79 passim, 260, 282
sexual see sexuality
sociopolitical
42, 58
divine locutions
266n55
dragon-slaying motif
112â113
ekphrasis see discourse
emotion
98, 224n35
epigraphy
and gender identity
40
as a performative act
41
as commemoration
36, 45
female
agency
36, 37â39, 228, 244, 258â261
authority
39â44, 228, 256â258, 264â265
authorship
244, 195â196, 200â201
body
178â181
femininity see gender
genealogies of knowledge
228, 243â245
humility
203â204, 208
literacy
197, 227â229, 235â241
mysticism
152n5, 160â161, 165, 177, 257n6, 256â258
rhetoric
207â208
sanctity see sanctity
spirituality and nature
185â186
virtue
35, 43, 155â156, 202, 207â208, 264â265
visionaries
152, 155
Feminist Theory see methodology
Fourth Lateran Council
128
funerary inscriptions
32â49 passim
funerary ritual
cremation
86, 90
in pre-Christian religions (Slavic)
86â91
in Zoroastrianism
70â73
ritual suicide
85â86
funerary inscriptions
gender
and asceticism
59â60
and nature
151â152
dynamics
229, 243
femininity
36â37, 235
gender studies see methodology
in epigraphy
32â51 passim
masculinity
80â81, 151
female; gender studies; sexuality; Queer Studies
gender studies see methodology
genealogy see methodology
hagiography
and biography
224n35
auto-hagiography
23â24, 196, 224
in verse
101â121 passim
metaphrasis
101n
ritual in see ritual
taxonomy
12â16, 24
dragon-slaying motif; imitatio Christi; martyr; miracles; narrativity; sanctity
heroism
116
heterosexuality see sexuality
homoeroticism see sexuality
iconisms see mysticism
imitatio Christi
181, 262â264, 285
martyr
and community
286, 212n24
and persecution
54, 70
as hero
116
princes
80â82
rejection of idols and sacrifices
69
torments
113
hagiography; imitatio Christi; miracles
masculinity see gender
metalepsis see narrativity
metaphrasis see hagiography
methodology
affect
11, 14
comparative
13â15, 22â24
emic categories
16, 24, 27
Feminist Historiography
228â229
feminist theology
251n
Feminist Theory
37â38, 46, 285n11, 291, 286â287
gender studies
35â36
genealogy
13
post-colonial critique
13â14
Queer Theory
286â288
ritual theory
52â53
self-awareness
11â14, 26
Western academic structures
27
miracle
adaptation to audience
137, 141, 144â146
and exempla
129â136
healing
94â95, 209n21
Marian
125â146 passim
of St John and King Edwardâs ring
143â144
of the lustful monk
140â141
posthumous
94, 224n
dermographism; divine locutions; iconisms; mysticism; stigmata; wax statuettes
monasticism
female monastic communities
59â60, 287â288, 291
mysticism
bodily
262â263
female mystics see female
iconisms
266
mystical floriculture
170â171
âNature Mysticismâ
152â153
quietism
259n17
dermographism; divine locutions; iconisms; nature; stigmata; wax statuettes
narrativity
dialogue
195â196
in hagiography
2, 117â120, 130, 136, 215, 276n
metalepsis
117â118
nature
(female) spirituality and
185â186
femininity and
178â179, 181
iconographic representation of
174â175, 178â179
literary representation of
167â168
âNature Mysticismâ see mysticism
orders (religious)
Dominican
133, 135
Franciscan
16â17, 133, 144
Minims
262n40
Olivetan
260
Penitence of Jesus Christ
144
Poor Clares (Order of Saint Clare)
265
performativity
103, 117, 167, 256n3
post-colonial critique see methodology
post-Tridentine Spain
227â252 passim
preaching
125, 133â135, 244
Psalms
and mystical experience of nature
154n
as ritual protection
62
Psalm 90
63
queer
reading
288, 291
relations
286â287
time
288n22
Queer Theory see methodology
quietism see mysticism
rangnam (genre)
23
relics
and material devotion
182â183, 266â267
clothing as
266â267
corporeal
152n4, 263n43
not corporeal
127â128
physical veneration of
93, 98
textual production (letters, writings, etc.) as
258
religious dissent see dissent
restless dead
87â92
ritual
chanting of Psalms
62â63
definition of
52â53
failure
52
in Zoroastrianism
61, 65
incubatio
53
negotiation
52â54
pre-Christian (Slavic)
84â90
sacrifice (humans) see funerary ritual
theorization of
60â70
funerary ritual; Psalms; ritual theory; restless dead; Zoroastrianism
ritual theory see methodology
Saint Anne
as teacher
235â241
textual representations of
241â251
visual representations of
231, 234â235, 239â241
sanctity
and modesty
208
and visions
257â258
as heroism
120
as perfection
16, 24â25
female
42, 128, 146, 285n13
hagiography; martyr
Sasanian Empire
Christianity in the
57â58
relations with Byzantium
58
Greek Christian communities
59
Second Council of Lyon
144
sensoriality
95, 98â99, 162, 167â168
sensuality
95â99, 152â153
sexuality
homoeroticism
97â99, 281â282, 287â288
heterosexuality
288
sensuality; virginity
sociopolitical dissent see dissent
spirituality
126â129
stigmata
262â263, 264n44
transformation
in ritual acts
54
vegetal
167â171
Virgin Mary
as tree
169â170
miracles of
125â146 passim
virginity
230n6, 236
wax statuettes
258, 266n54, 267n58
Zoroaster
64â65
Zoroastrianism
Amesha Spenta
68
conversion from Z. to Christianity see conversion
funerary practices see funerary ritual
rituals in see ritual
VidÄvdÄd see primary sources
Yashts see primary sourcesSasanian Empire; Zoroaster