Thaúmata

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 Cañizares Ferriz

7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)

 María Victoria Curto Hernández

 8 A Life in Memory: María de San José’s Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of Ávila

 Esther Borrego Gutiérrez

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 Gonçalves Soares

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