Monks & nuns, saints & outcasts : religion in medieval society : essays in honor of Lester K. Little /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Little, Lester K., Farmer, Sharon A., Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Monastic memory and the mutation of the year thousand / Patrick J. Geary
  • Perennial prayer at Agaune / Barbara H. Rsenwein
  • Claustration and collaboration between the sexes in the twelfth-century scriptorium / Alison I. Beach
  • Sulmona society and the miracles of Peter of Morrone / Robert Brentano
  • Female religious experience and society in thirteenth-century Italy / Luigi Pellegrini
  • Saints and angry neighbors: the politics of cursing in Irish hagiography / Lisa M. Bitel
  • The beggar's body: intersections of gender and social status in high medieval Paris / Sharon Farmer
  • The leper's kiss / Catherine Peyroux
  • The colonization of sacred architecture: the Virgin Mary, mosques, and temples in medieval Spain and early sixteenth-century Mexico / Amy G. Remensnyder
  • Saints, heretics, and fire: finding meaning through the ordeal / Thomas Head.