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WRITING HOLINESS

by Jessica Barr, Barbara Zimbalist

  • Hardback
  • 281 pages
  • Publisher: Brepols Pub
  • 16.3 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

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For students of Christian history today

Guides you through new ways to read saints

Expand your view of medieval sacred writing

Explore fresh, innovative perspectives on the study of medieval saints and hagiographic literature.

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Writing Holiness contributes to exciting new critical conversations in the study of medieval hagiography in Western Christianity. Recent years have seen innovative approaches to the literatures of sanctity through emergent theoretical discourses, such as disability studies and trans theory. At the same time, traditional methodologies such as manuscript studies and reception history continue to generate new perspectives on the production, circulation, and reception of the sacred textual canon. Through ten unique contributions that draw from both new and established theories and methodologies, this volume charts the development, movement, and reception of Christian hagiographic texts in localities ranging from the Iberian Peninsula to the Scandinavian Archipelago from the early to the late Middle Ages. Each chapter traces hagiographic development over generic, temporal, cultural, and linguistic boundaries, and considers the broader contours of the sacred imaginary that come into view as a result of such critically intersectional inquiry.

  • Title

    WRITING HOLINESS

  • Authors

    Jessica Barr +1

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brepols Pub

  • Published

    September 2023

  • Weight

    609g

  • Page Count

    281

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9782503601984

  • ISBN-10

    2503601987

  • Eden Code

    6383755