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Medieval Saints And Modern Screens
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Author : Alicia Spencer-Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Medieval Saints And Modern Screens written by Alicia Spencer-Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Hagiography categories.
By examining medieval female saints' lives in dialogue with modern film theories, a trans-historical spectrum of visual experience is revealed: medieval saint and modern moviegoer are connected in the visual act.
Medieval Saints And Modern Screens
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Author : Alicia Spencer-Hall
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Medieval Saints And Modern Screens written by Alicia Spencer-Hall and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with History categories.
This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.
Trans And Genderqueer Subjects In Medieval Hagiography
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Author : Alicia Spencer-Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-04-24
Trans And Genderqueer Subjects In Medieval Hagiography written by Alicia Spencer-Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with HISTORY categories.
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiographypresents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory - yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiographyenables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.
Holy Feast And Holy Fast
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Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988-01-07
Holy Feast And Holy Fast written by Caroline Walker Bynum and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-07 with History categories.
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.
Versions Of Virginity In Late Medieval England
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Author : Sarah Salih
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2001
Versions Of Virginity In Late Medieval England written by Sarah Salih and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
The Art And Science Of The Church Screen In Medieval Europe
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Author : Spike Bucklow
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
The Art And Science Of The Church Screen In Medieval Europe written by Spike Bucklow and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Architecture categories.
Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages.
The Gothic Screen
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Author : Jacqueline E. Jung
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
The Gothic Screen written by Jacqueline E. Jung and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.
Secretaries Of God
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Author : Diane Watt
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1997
Secretaries Of God written by Diane Watt and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium of trances and eucharistic piety, to speak for God. [...] Through prophecy they were often able to intervene in the religious and political discourse of their times: the role of God's secretary gave them the opportunity to act and speak autonomously and publicly"--Back cover.
Contested Canonizations
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Author : Ronald C. Finucane
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2011-10-12
Contested Canonizations written by Ronald C. Finucane and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-12 with History categories.
This work, which forms an important bridge between medieval and Counter-Reformation sanctity and canonization, provides a richly contextualized analysis of the ways in which the last five candidates for sainthood before the Reformation came to be canonized.
Visualizing Women In The Middle Ages
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Author : Madeline Harrison Caviness
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2001
Visualizing Women In The Middle Ages written by Madeline Harrison Caviness and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
For Caviness, an awareness of historical context places pressure upon contemporary theories like that of the "male gaze," changing their shapes and creating even richer dialogues with the past."--BOOK JACKET.