History in the comic mode
Subtitle: medieval communities and the matter of person
By: edited by Rachel Fulton, Bruce W. Holsinger
Contributors: Fulton, Rachel; Holsinger, Bruce W
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780231133685; 9780231508476
Subjects: Middle Ages; Civilization, Medieval; Individuality -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Identity (Psychology) -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Community life -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Religion and sociology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Soul -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Europe -- Religious life and customs; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Forgetting Hathumoda : the afterlife of the first abbess of Gandersheim / Frederick S. Paxton; title: "If one member glories; title: " : community between the living and the saintly dead in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints / Anna Harrison; title: The pope's shrunken head : the apocalyptic visions of Robert of Uzès / Raymond Clemens; title: Thomas of Cantimpré and female sanctity / John Coakley; title: The changing fortunes of Angela of Foligno, daughter, mother, and wife / Catherine M. Mooney; title: "A particular light of understanding" : Margaret of Cortona, the Franciscans, and a Cortonese cleric / Mary Harvey Doyno; title: Fragments of devotion : charters and canons in Aquitaine, 876-1050 / Anna Trumbore Jones; title: Naming names : the nomenclature of heresy in the early eleventh century / Thomas Head; title: Economic development and demotic religiosity / Richard Landes; title: Back-biting and self-promotion : the work of merchants of the Cairo Geniza / Jessica Goldberg; title: John of Salisbury and the civic utility of religion / Mark Silk; title: Understanding contagion : the contaminating effect of another's sin / Susan R. Kramer; title: Calvin's smile / John Jeffries Martin; title: Why all the fuss about the mind? : a medievalist's perspective on cognitive theory / Anne L. Clark; title: Aspects of blood piety in a late-medieval English manuscript, London, British Library MS Additional 37049 / Marlene Villalobos Hennessy; title: Machiavelli, trauma, and the scandal of the prince : an essay in speculative history / Alison K. Frazier; title: Low country ascetics and oriental luxury : Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the treasures of Oignies / Sharon Farmer; title: Crystalline wombs and pregnant hearts : the exuberant bodies of the Katharinenthal Visitation Group / Jacqueline E. Jung; title: Gluttony and the anthropology of pain in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio / Manuele Gragnolati; title: "Human heaven" : John of Rupescissa's Alchemy at the end of the world / Leah DeVun; title: Magic, bodies, university masters, and the invention of the late medieval witch / Steven P. Marrone; title: Afterword : history in the comic mode / Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger