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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Smith, Rachel J.
Titre(s) : Excessive saints [Texte imprimé] : gender, narrative, and theological invention in Thomas of Cantimpré's mystical hagiographies / Rachel J.D. Smith
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Columbia University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x-303 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Gender, theory, and religion
Lien à la collection : Gender, theory, and religion
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 273-289. Index
"For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré,
the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit,
he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike.
Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives
so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions
of his day. In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary,
and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas's hagiographies,
showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform
theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious
experimentation, Thomas's texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures:
the narrative of the holy person's life becomes a site of theological invention in
a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic.
Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render
them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how particular representations
are crafted by Thomas in the service of the church even as he works through his uncertainties
about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present.
Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas's narrative craft in relation
to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval
Christianity, and medieval women's history"
Sujet(s) : Thomas de Cantimpré (1201?-126.?) -- Hagiographie
Hagiographie chrétienne
Saintes chrétiennes -- Moyen âge
Féminité -- Religion -- Moyen âge
Indice(s) Dewey :
270.092 2 (23e éd.) = Histoire du christianisme - Biographie collective
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231188609 (rel.). - ISBN 0231188609. - ISBN 9780231547932 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45592139p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45592139
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Hagiographical theology : making holy bodies from the word ; Thomas
of Cantimpré : his life and literary activity ; "With wondrous horror she fled" :
dissimilarity and sanctity in The life of Christina the Astonishing ; Gendering particularity
: a comparison of The life of Christina the Astonishing and The life of Abbot John
of Cantimpré ; A question of proof : Augustine and the reading of hagiography ;
Language, literacy, and the saintly body ; The uses of astonishment : apophasis and
the writing of mystical hagiography ; Producing the body of God : exemplary teaching,
Jewish carnality, and Christian doubt in the Bonum universale de apibus.
