Sacred Skin: The Legend of St. Bartholomew in Spanish Art and Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40780-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 72, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Sacred Skin offers the first systematic evaluation of the dissemination and development of the cult of St. Bartholomew in Spain. Exploring the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their ambivalent effect on the observer, the book focuses on literary and visual testimonies produced from the emergence of a distinctive vernacular voice through to the formalization of Bartholomew’s saintly identity and his transformation into a key expression of Iberian consciousness. Drawing on and extending advances in cultural criticism, particularly theories of selfhood and the complex ontology of the human body, its five chapters probe the evolution of hagiographic conventions, demonstrating how flaying poses a unique challenge to our understanding of the nature and meaning of identity.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Beresford, Andrew M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

1Hagiographic Tradition and the Transformation of Identity: The Origin and Evolution of the Cult of St. Bartholomew

1Bartholomew and the Classical Inheritance

2Bartholomew in Iberian Literature and Culture

3Bartholomew’s Hagiographic Legacy

2The Infant on the Mountainside: The Abduction of St. Bartholomew in Early Iberian Art

1The Legend of the Infant in Early Iberian Art

2Bartholomew and the Diabolical Double

3Prelapsarian Providence and the Infant on the Mountainside

4The Cult of the Infant

3St. Bartholomew’s Evangelical Ministry and the Cosmic Drama of Conversion

1Bartholomew’s Threefold Ministry

2Bartholomew’s Exorcistic Drama

3Idolatry and Iconoclash: Bartholomew as Double-Edged Sword

4Holy Water: Bartholomew as Baptizer

4The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in Early Iberian Art

1From Ministry to Martyrdom

2Flaying in Early Iberian Art

3Flayed Skin and the Fragmented Self: Bartholomew as Dermaphore

4Flaying, Decapitation, and Bartholomew as Devotional Icon

5St. Bartholomew and the Formalization of Hagiographic Identity: Spanish Art in the Seventeenth Century

1Bartholomew and the Early Iberian Legacy

2Bartholomew: Portraits and Apostolates

3Flaying as Narrative Representation

4Colophon: Beyond Ribera, Tradition and Innovation

Appendixes

Texts and Sources

Appendix 1: A Fourteenth-Century Castilian Reworking of Pseudo-Abdias’sActa fabulosa

Appendix 2: The Gran flos sanctorum (Compilation A)

Appendix 3: The Leyenda de los santos (Compilation B)

Appendix 4: Flos sanctorum from Fundación Casa de Alba MS 30 (Alternative Reading Related to Compilation B)

Appendix 5: Locations in Spain with Bartholomew as Patron

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew M. Beresford is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Durham. He has published widely on Spanish hagiography and devotional topics, including books on Agnes (2007), Thaïs and Pelagia (2007), and Agatha and Lucy (2010).