Thaúmata

Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73867-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boada-Benito, Aitor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).