Excessive Saints : Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré's Mystical Hagiographies /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Smith, Rachel J. D., author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Gender, Theory, and Religion
Subject:	Thomas, -- de Cantimpré, -- approximately 1200-approximately 1270. Christian hagiography -- History and criticism. Christian women saints -- Biography. Hagiographers -- Belgium -- Biography. Christian hagiography. Christian women saints. Hagiographers. Belgium.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12629828

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Other authors / contributors:	Hollywood, Amy, editor.
ISBN:	0231547935 9780231547932 9780231188609 0231188609
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	In English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019).
Other form:	Print version: 9780231188609 0231188609
Standard no.:	10.7312/smit18860

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION: HAGIOGRAPHICAL THEOLOGY
MAKING HOLY BODIES FROM THE WORD
1. THOMAS OF CANTIMPRÉ: HIS LIFE AND LITERARY ACTIVITY
2. "WITH WONDROUS HORROR SHE FLED": DISSIMILARITY AND SANCTITY IN THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING
3. GENDERING PARTICULARITY: A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING AND THE LIFE OF ABBOT JOHN OF CANTIMPRÉ
4. A QUESTION OF PROOF: AUGUSTINE AND THE READING OF HAGIOGRAPHY
5. LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND THE SAINTLY BODY
6. THE USES OF ASTONISHMENT: APOPHASIS AND THE WRITING OF MYSTICAL HAGIOGRAPHY
7. PRODUCING THE BODY OF GOD: EXEMPLARY TEACHING, JEWISH CARNALITY, AND CHRISTIAN DOUBT IN THE BONUM UNIVERSALE DE APIBUS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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