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Author:   David J. Collins, S. J. (Associate Professor of History, Georgetown)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 23.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780271082400

ISBN 10:   0271082402
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Flirting Between Heaven and Hell David J. Collins, S.J. Part 1: Traditional Holiness 1. Extreme Sanctity at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Metamorphosis of Body and Community in the Vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of Assisi Claire Fanger 2. The Sources and Significance of Stefania’s New Statement on Margherita Colonna’s Perfection of the Virtues Sean L. Field Part 2: Conflicts over the Holy 3. Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities Remember Their Medieval Pasts Kristi Woodward Bain 4. Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought Elizabeth Casteen 5. Syneisaktism : Sacred Partnership and Sinister Scandal Maeve B. Callan Part 3: Identifying and Grappling with the Unholy 6. Was Magic a Religious Movement? Michael D. Bailey 7. The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric’s Contra infideles demones invocantes Katelyn Mesler 8. Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval Germany Anne M. Koenig Part 4: Magic and the Cosmos 9. A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the Heavens Sophie Page 10. Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2 David J. Collins, S.J. Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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This fascinating collection explores, as its dedicatee has done throughout his career, the fundamental ambivalence between 'the holy and the unholy.' Perfectly capturing Richard Kieckhefer's eclectic interests, the book includes essays on topics ranging from saints and their hagiographers, to church buildings (and their embodiments of identities and meanings), to heresy, demons, and magic. Kieckhefer once quipped that his scholarship has a right hand and a left hand. Both sides are delightfully represented here. --Laura Ackerman Smoller, author of The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe This collection of essays brings together two areas that are still often looked at separately: the history of magic and the history of saints, mystics, and more everyday parishioners. As well as celebrating the work of Richard Kieckhefer, Collins's volume showcases the original work being done by leading scholars in the field. It should stimulate new work on the relationship between holiness and unholiness in the Middle Ages. --Catherine Rider, author of Magic and Religion in Medieval England

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David J. Collins, S.J., is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University.

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