Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Presentation ix
4. Mystic Historicities 1
5. Chapter One The Look: Nicholas of Cusa 23
6. Chapter Two The Poem and Its Prose 71
7. Chapter Three Shards of Speech 88
8. Chapter Four Uses of Tradition 98
9. Chapter Five Absolute Reading 120
10. Chapter Six Stories of Passions 135
11. Chapter Seven The Experimental Science of Madness 144
12. Chapter Eight Angelic Speech 161
13. Chapter Nine Biblical Erudition 181
14. Chapter Ten The Strange Secret: Pascal 194
15. The Opera of Speech: Glossolalias 212
16. Notes 227
17. Index of Names 283