Medieval saints and modern screens : divine visions as cinematic experience /

The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liège" corpus presents biographies filled with dramatic visions of God and intense physical unions with Christ. The texts that make up the collection demonstrate the problematic division of body and soul in the per...

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Main Author: Spencer-Hall, Alicia (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3.
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