Sacred Skin: The Legend of St. Bartholomew in Spanish Art and Literature (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 72)
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Sacred Skin offers the first systematic evaluation of the cult of St. Bartholomew in Spain. Focusing primarily on flaying, its five chapters explore the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their complex and ambivalent effect on the observer. Copyright Contents Preface Figures Map of the Iberian Peninsula Abbreviations Chapter 1 Hagiographic Tradition and the Transformation of Identity: The Origin and Evolution of the Cult of St. Bartholomew 1 Bartholomew and the Classical Inheritance 2 Bartholomew in Iberian Literature and Culture 3 Bartholomew's Hagiographic Legacy Chapter 2 The Infant on the Mountainside: The Abduction of St. Bartholomew in Early Iberian Art 1 The Legend of the Infant in Early Iberian Art 2 Bartholomew and the Diabolical Double 3 Prelapsarian Providence and the Infant on the Mountainside 4 The Cult of the Infant Chapter 3 St. Bartholomew's Evangelical Ministry and the Cosmic Drama of Conversion 1 Bartholomew's Threefold Ministry 2 Bartholomew's Exorcistic Drama 3 Idolatry and Iconoclash Bartholomew as Double-Edged Sword 4 Holy Water Bartholomew as Baptizer Chapter 4 The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in Early Iberian Art 1 From Ministry to Martyrdom 2 Flaying in Early Iberian Art 3 Flayed Skin and the Fragmented Self Bartholomew as Dermaphore 4 Flaying, Decapitation, and Bartholomew as Devotional Icon Chapter 5 St. Bartholomew and the Formalization of Hagiographic Identity: Spanish Art in the Seventeenth Century 1 Bartholomew and the Early Iberian Legacy 2 Bartholomew Portraits and Apostolates 3 Flaying as Narrative Representation 4 Colophon Beyond Ribera, Tradition and Innovation Appendixes Appendix 1 A Fourteenth-Century Castilian Reworking of the Pseudo-Abdias's Acta fabulosa [bnm 10252 fol. 24ra] Appendix 2 The Gran flos sanctorum (Compilation A) [bnm 12689 fol. 41ra] Declaración del nombre del apóstol Sant Bartholomé Appendix 3 The Leyenda de los santos (Compilation B) [flg 15001 fol. 114vb] Sant Bartholomé Appendix 4 Flos sanctorum from Fundación Casa de Alba MS 30 (Alternative Reading Related to Compilation B) [fca 30 fol. 37va] Appendix 5 Locations in Spain with Bartholomew as Patron Works Cited Index of Bible Citations General Index
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