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The Sacred and the Sinister : Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic / ed. by David J. Collins, S. J.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 6 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271084398
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  • 200.94/0902 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Flirting Between Heaven and Hell -- Part 1: Traditional Holiness -- 1 Extreme Sanctity at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Metamorphosis of Body and Community in the Vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of Assisi -- 2 The Sources and Significance of Stefania’s New Statement on Margherita Colonna’s Perfection of the Virtues -- Part 2: Conflicts over the Holy -- 3 Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities Remember Their Medieval Pasts -- 4 Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought -- 5 Syneisaktism: Sacred Partnership and Sinister Scandal -- Part 3: Identifying and Grappling with the Unholy -- 6 Was Magic a Religious Movement -- 7 The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric’s Contra infideles demones invocantes -- 8 Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval Germany -- Part 4: Magic and the Cosmos -- 9 A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the Heavens -- 10 Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2 -- Selected bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index
Summary: Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation.In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science.Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science.In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Flirting Between Heaven and Hell -- Part 1: Traditional Holiness -- 1 Extreme Sanctity at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Metamorphosis of Body and Community in the Vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of Assisi -- 2 The Sources and Significance of Stefania’s New Statement on Margherita Colonna’s Perfection of the Virtues -- Part 2: Conflicts over the Holy -- 3 Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities Remember Their Medieval Pasts -- 4 Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought -- 5 Syneisaktism: Sacred Partnership and Sinister Scandal -- Part 3: Identifying and Grappling with the Unholy -- 6 Was Magic a Religious Movement -- 7 The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric’s Contra infideles demones invocantes -- 8 Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval Germany -- Part 4: Magic and the Cosmos -- 9 A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the Heavens -- 10 Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2 -- Selected bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index

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Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation.In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science.Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science.In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.

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