Thaumata
Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies
Published on 21. August 2025
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-90-04-73867-6 (ISBN)
Description
Thaumata: Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies gathers renowned international scholars to reflect and explore the study of Hagiography and its sources. Breaking through chronological and spatial boundaries, this compelling volume critically examines sanctity, holy figures, and the study of them across diverse cultures, periods, and sources. Offering fresh insights and innovative methodologies while acknowledging the most established perspectives, Thaumata broadens our understanding of holiness in history, making it an indispensable resource for academics in Religious Studies and related fields.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-73867-6 (9789004738676)
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Person
Aitor Boada-Benito, Ph.D. (2024), Complutense University (Madrid), is member of the Institute for Religious Studies at that institution. He specializes in the study of sainthood in Late Antiquity and serves as Section Editor for the journal Open Theology (De Gruyter).
Content
AbbreviationsII
List of Tables and FiguresX
Notes on Contributors?X
Introduction
?Aitor Boada-Benito
1 Taxonomy, Titles, and the Critically Self-Aware Study of "Hagiography"
?Massimo Rondolino
2 What Most Noble Servants Do: Feminine Performativity in Medieval Funerary Inscriptions
?Sonia Madrid Medrano
3 Ritual Negotiations and Failure: Hagiography and the Articulation of Religious Dissent
?Aitor Boada-Benito
4 The Sensoriality and Sensuality of the Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb in Their Earliest East Church Slavonic Hagiographies
?Enrique Santos Marinas
?5?Rewriting Saints' Lives in Verse: Genre, Function and Compositional Strategies in Tetrastichs on St Theodore Stratilates of Theodore Prodromos
?Matilde Casas Olea
6 Rewriting, Creation and Re-signification of the Marian Miracle at the End of the Middle Ages
?Patricia Canizares Ferriz
7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534)
?Maria Victoria Curto Hernandez
?8?A Life in Memory: Maria de San Jose's Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of Avila
?Esther Borrego Gutierrez
9 Saint Anne the Teacher: Women's Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in Post-Tridentine Spain
?Julia Lewandowska
10 Female Mystic Spirituality and Sensorial Devotions in Italy in the XVIII Century
?Chiara Coletti
11 Incarnating Sanctity: Forms of Female Spirituality in Contemporary Religious Fiction
?Ana Rita Goncalves Soares
Index
List of Tables and FiguresX
Notes on Contributors?X
Introduction
?Aitor Boada-Benito
1 Taxonomy, Titles, and the Critically Self-Aware Study of "Hagiography"
?Massimo Rondolino
2 What Most Noble Servants Do: Feminine Performativity in Medieval Funerary Inscriptions
?Sonia Madrid Medrano
3 Ritual Negotiations and Failure: Hagiography and the Articulation of Religious Dissent
?Aitor Boada-Benito
4 The Sensoriality and Sensuality of the Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb in Their Earliest East Church Slavonic Hagiographies
?Enrique Santos Marinas
?5?Rewriting Saints' Lives in Verse: Genre, Function and Compositional Strategies in Tetrastichs on St Theodore Stratilates of Theodore Prodromos
?Matilde Casas Olea
6 Rewriting, Creation and Re-signification of the Marian Miracle at the End of the Middle Ages
?Patricia Canizares Ferriz
7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534)
?Maria Victoria Curto Hernandez
?8?A Life in Memory: Maria de San Jose's Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of Avila
?Esther Borrego Gutierrez
9 Saint Anne the Teacher: Women's Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in Post-Tridentine Spain
?Julia Lewandowska
10 Female Mystic Spirituality and Sensorial Devotions in Italy in the XVIII Century
?Chiara Coletti
11 Incarnating Sanctity: Forms of Female Spirituality in Contemporary Religious Fiction
?Ana Rita Goncalves Soares
Index