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Sacred and the Sinister:

Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic

ISBN-13: 9780271082417
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by David J. Collins
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Local release date: 01/12/2020
Format: Paperback (180.00mm X 120.00mm) 304 pages Weight: 440g
Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]

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A collection of essays focusing on the relationship between concepts of the holy and the unholy in western European medieval culture. Demonstrates how religion, magic, and science were all modes of engagement with a natural world that was understood to be divinely created and infused with mysterious power.

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

“Apart from the introduction, this volume contains ten contributions by Anglophone authors—discipuli, collegae, amici—which, as usual, prove to be of quite diverse subject matter and quality.”

—Peter Dinzelbacher, Sehepunkte

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