Description
Book SynopsisSet Me as a Seal Upon Thy Heart: Constructions of Female Sanctity in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Period is a collection of essays focusing on saintly women's representations both in Eastern and Western Christianity starting from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages and Early Modernity. The volume discusses two different categories in relation to the conceptualization of female sanctity: the context of their construction in hagiographic sources and the emergent power rendered by their martyrdoms. It offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the present research carried out in the fields of hagiography, history, and art history.
Table of Contents
- Foreword By Gerhard Jaritz
- Introduction By Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
- CHAPTER 1. Bricks to Bones: Royal Women and the Construction of Holy Place in the Stepennaia Kniga, by Rosie Finlinson
- CHAPTER 2. Macrina and Melania the Elder: Painting the Portraits of Holy Learned Women in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire, by Andra Jug?naru
- CHAPTER 3. The Apocryphal Geography of the Virgin Mary in Hagiographic Collections: Dissemination and Liturgy, by Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
- CHAPTER 4. Private Devotion and Political Ostentation: Roger I the Great Count and the Spread of Saint Lucy's Cult in Southern Italy, by Francesco Calò
- CHAPTER 5. Beyond a Hagiographic Cliché. On the Supernatural Sustenance of Saint Catherine of Siena, by C?t?lina-Tatiana Covaciu
- CHAPTER 6. Between Similarity and Distinction: Notes on the Iconography of Saint Wilgefortis in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, by Silvia Marin Barutcieff
