The Sacred and the Sinister : Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic.

COVER front -- Copyright -- Table of CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: -- Chapter 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 -- Notes to chapter1 -- Chapter 2: The Sources and Significance of Stefania's New Statementon Margherita Colonna's Perfection of the Virtues -- notes to chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities Remember Their Medieval Pasts -- notes to chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought -- Notes to chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Syneisaktism : Sacred Partnership and Sinister Scandal -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Was Magic a Religious Movement? -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric's Contra infideles demones invocantes -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval Germany -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9: A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the Heavens -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter10: Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- notes -- bibliography -- INDEX.

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