Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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In the modern world, interest in religious devotion is as great as ever. This volume brings together the research of ten scholars into the diverse ways that Europeans expressed their quest for God over more than a millennium, from the formative centuries of Christianity up to the seventeenth century. Topics include women transvestite saints, Monophysite wall-paintings, Anglo-Saxon sainthood and painful martyrdom, Carmelite self-redefinition, the confident authorship of Gautier de Coinci and Matfre Ermengaud, competition between the bishop and a wandering preacher for popular favor in Le Mans, the contemplative philanthropies of the Poor Clares, Chester Nativity-cycle actors’ masculinity, Jean Gerson’s warm relations with his siblings, and George Herbert’s Eucharistic feeling. The authors’ profound familiarity with primary sources as well as the influence of current theory makes these essays vibrant and timely. Front matter (“Contents”, “Acknowledgement”), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. xi Susan C. Karant-Nunn https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.95 “A Dwelling Place of Christ, a Healing Place of Knowledge”: The Non-Chalcedonian Eucharist in Late Antique Egypt and Its Setting, p. 1 Leslie S. B. MacCoull https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.96 Theology and Culture: Masculinizing the Woman, p. 17 Laila Abdalla https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.97 Pain and Saint-Making in Andreas, Bede, and the Old English Lives of St. Margaret, p. 39 Peter Dendle https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.98 From Hermits to Mendicant Friars: Continuity and Change in the Carmelite Order, p. 53 Andreas Rüther https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.99 A Book for Poverty’s Daughters: Gender and Devotion in Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Ital. 115, p. 61 Holly Flora https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.100 Authority, Heresy, and Popular Devotion: Le Mans (1116) Reconsidered, p. 99 John S. Ott https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.101 The Poetics of Authorship and Vernacular Religious Devotion, p. 125 Michelle Bolduc https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.102 Of Magi and Men: Christ’s Nativity and Masculine Community in the Chester Drama Cycle, p. 145 Christina M. Fitzgerald https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.103 Patterns of Male Affectivity in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Jean Gerson, p. 163 Brian Patrick McGuire https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.104 “Take and Taste”: Sacramental Physiology, Eucharistic Experience, and George Herbert’s The Temple, p. 179 Ryan Netzley https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.3.105 Back matter (“Notes on Contributors”, “Index”), p. 207