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Thaúmata
Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies
Series: - Numen Book Series, Volume: 180
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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 ContributorsâX
Introduction
âAitor Boada-Benito
1 Taxonomy, Titles, and the Critically Self-Aware Study of âHagiographyâ
âMassimo Rondolino
2 What Most Noble Servants Do: Feminine Performativity in Medieval Funerary Inscriptions
âSonia Madrid Medrano
3 Ritual Negotiations and Failure: Hagiography and the Articulation of Religious Dissent
âAitor Boada-Benito
4 The Sensoriality and Sensuality of the Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb in Their Earliest East Church Slavonic Hagiographies
âEnrique Santos Marinas
â5âRewriting Saintsâ Lives in Verse: Genre, Function and Compositional Strategies in Tetrastichs on St Theodore Stratilates of Theodore Prodromos
âMatilde Casas Olea
6 Rewriting, Creation and Re-signification of the Marian Miracle at the End of the Middle Ages
âPatricia Cañizares Ferriz
7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481â1534)
âMarÃa Victoria Curto Hernández
â8âA Life in Memory: MarÃa de San Joséâs Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of Ãvila
âEsther Borrego Gutiérrez
9 Saint Anne the Teacher: Womenâs Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in Post-Tridentine Spain
âJulia Lewandowska
10 Female Mystic Spirituality and Sensorial Devotions in Italy in the XVIII Century
âChiara Coletti
11 Incarnating Sanctity: Forms of Female Spirituality in Contemporary Religious Fiction
âAna Rita Gonçalves Soares
Index
List of Tables and FiguresX
Notes on ContributorsâX
Introduction
âAitor Boada-Benito
1 Taxonomy, Titles, and the Critically Self-Aware Study of âHagiographyâ
âMassimo Rondolino
2 What Most Noble Servants Do: Feminine Performativity in Medieval Funerary Inscriptions
âSonia Madrid Medrano
3 Ritual Negotiations and Failure: Hagiography and the Articulation of Religious Dissent
âAitor Boada-Benito
4 The Sensoriality and Sensuality of the Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb in Their Earliest East Church Slavonic Hagiographies
âEnrique Santos Marinas
â5âRewriting Saintsâ Lives in Verse: Genre, Function and Compositional Strategies in Tetrastichs on St Theodore Stratilates of Theodore Prodromos
âMatilde Casas Olea
6 Rewriting, Creation and Re-signification of the Marian Miracle at the End of the Middle Ages
âPatricia Cañizares Ferriz
7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481â1534)
âMarÃa Victoria Curto Hernández
â8âA Life in Memory: MarÃa de San Joséâs Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of Ãvila
âEsther Borrego Gutiérrez
9 Saint Anne the Teacher: Womenâs Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in Post-Tridentine Spain
âJulia Lewandowska
10 Female Mystic Spirituality and Sensorial Devotions in Italy in the XVIII Century
âChiara Coletti
11 Incarnating Sanctity: Forms of Female Spirituality in Contemporary Religious Fiction
âAna Rita Gonçalves Soares
Index
Academic Institutes, Libraries, Specialists (teachers and researchers but also graduate and post-graduate students). Relevant subject areas: Religious Studies; Hagiography; Late Antique History; Medieval History; Modern History; Contemporary History; Queer Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Anthropology; History of Experiences; History of Religions; Literature; Slavic Studies; Epigraphy; Byzantine Studies