Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I: NEW PARADIGMS, TRADITIONAL TOOLS
7. 1. Monastic Memory and the Mutation of the Year Thousand 19
8. 2. Perennial Prayer at Agaune 37
9. 3. Claustration and Collaboration between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium 57
10. PART 2: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
11. 4. Sulmona Society and the Miracles of Peter of Morrone 79
12. 5. Female Religious Experience and Society in Thirteenth-Century Italy 97
13. 6. Saints and Angry Neighbors: The Politics of Cursing in Irish Hagiography 123
14. PART 3: RETHINKING BINARIES
15. 7. The Beggar's Body: Intersections of Gender and Social Status in High Medieval Paris 153
16. 8. The Leper's Kiss 172
17. 9. The Colonization of Sacred Architecture: The Virgin Mary, Mosques, . and Temples in Medieval Spain and Early Sixteenth-Century Mexico 189
18. 10. Saints, Heretics, and Fire: Finding Meaning through the Ordeal 220
19. CONTRIBUTORS 239
20. INDEX 243