History in the Comic Mode Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person 1st Edition by Rachel Fulton, Bruce Holsinger 9780231133685 0231133685

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ISBN 10: 0231133685

ISBN 13: 9780231133685

Author: Rachel Fulton, Bruce Holsinger

In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-one prominent medievalists discuss continuity and change in ideas of personhood and community and argue for the viability of the comic mode in the study and recovery of history. These scholars approach their sources not from a particular ideological viewpoint but with an understanding that all topics, questions, and explanations are viable. They draw on a variety of sources in Latin, Arabic, French, German, Middle English, and more, and employ a range of theories and methodologies, always keeping in mind that environments are inseparable from the making of the people who inhabit them and that these people are in part constituted by and understood in terms of their communities. Essays feature close readings of both familiar and lesser known materials, offering provocative interpretations of John of Rupescissa’s alchemy; the relationship between the living and the saintly dead in Bernard of Clairvaux’s sermons; the nomenclature of heresy in the early eleventh century; the apocalyptic visions of Robert of Uzès; Machiavelli’s De principatibus; the role of “demotic religiosity” in economic development; and the visions of Elizabeth of Schönau. Contributors write as historians of religion, art, literature, culture, and society, approaching their subjects through the particular and the singular rather than through the thematic and the theoretical. Playing with the wild possibilities of the historical fragments at their disposal, the scholars in this collection advance a new and exciting approach to writing medieval history.

Table of contents:

Part I. Saints, Visionaries, and the Making of Holy Persons

1. Forgetting Hathumoda: The Afterlife of the First Abbess of Gandersheim

2. “If One Member Glories…”: Community Between the Living and the Saintly Dead in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons for the Feast of All Saints

3. The Pope’s Shrunken Head: The Apocalyptic Visions of Robert of Uzès

4. Thomas of Cantimpré and Female Sanctity

5. The Changing Fortunes of Angela of Foligno, Daughter, Mother, and Wife

6. “A Particular Light of Understanding”: Margaret of Cortona, the Franciscans, and a Cortonese Cleric

Part II. Community, Cultus, and Society

7. Fragments of Devotion: Charters and Canons in Aquitaine, 876–1050

8. Naming Names: The Nomenclature of Heresy in the Early Eleventh Century

9. Economic Development and Demotic Religiosity

10. Back-Biting and Self-Promotion: The Work of Merchants of the Cairo Geniza

11. John of Salisbury and the Civic Utility of Religion

Part III. Cognition, Composition, and Contagion

12. Understanding Contagion: The Contaminating Effect of Another’s Sin

13. Calvin’s Smile

14. Why All the Fuss About the Mind? A Medievalist’s Perspective on Cognitive Theory

15. Aspects of Blood Piety in a Late-Medieval English Manuscript: London, British Library Additional 37049

16. Machiavelli, Trauma, and the Scandal of The Prince: An Essay in Speculative History

Part IV. The Matter of Person

17. Low Country Ascetics and Oriental Luxury: Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the Treasures of Oignies

18. Crystalline Wombs and Pregnant Hearts: The Exuberant Bodies of the Katharinenthal Visitation Group

19. Gluttony and the Anthropology of Pain in Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio

20. “Human Heaven”: John of Rupescissa’s Alchemy at the End of the World

21. Magic, Bodies, University Masters, and the Invention of the Late Medieval Witch

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