History in the Comic Mode (eBook)

Rachel Fulton is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200, and she is currently studying the making of prayer in the medieval West, with special emphasis on prayer to the Virgin Mother of God.Bruce Holsinger is professor of English and music at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer, as well as The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. He is writing a book on liturgy and vernacularity in premodern England. Fulton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her Ph.D. is from Columbia. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion (Columbia, 2002), which won the Journal of the History of Ideas Morris D. Forkorsch Prize.Holsinger is Professor of English and Music at the University of Virginia. His Ph.D. is from Columbia. He is the author of Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (Stanford, 2002), which won the AMS's Philip Brett Award, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and the Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize, and of Premodernities: Archaeology of an Avant-Garde (Chicago, 2005).

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, by Bruce Holsinger and Rachel FultonPart I. Saints, Visionaries, and the Making of Holy Persons1. Forgetting Hathumoda: The Afterlife of the First Abbess of Gandersheim, by Frederick S. Paxton2. "If one member glories...": Community Between the Living and the Saintly Dead in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints, by Anna Harrison3. The Pope's Shrunken Head: The Apocalyptic Visions of Robert of Uzès, by Raymond Clemens4. Thomas of Cantimpré and Female Sanctity, by John Coakley5. The Changing Fortunes of Angela of Foligno, Daughter, Mother, and Wife, by Catherine M. Mooney6. "A Particular Light of Understanding": Margaret of Cortona, the Franciscans, and a Cortonese Cleric, by Mary Harvey DoynoPart II. Community, Cultus, and Society7. Fragments of Devotion: Charters and Canons in Aquitaine, 876–1050, by Anna Trumbore Jones8. Naming Names: The Nomenclature of Heresy in the Early Eleventh Century, by Thomas Head9. Economic Development and Demotic Religiosity, by Richard Landes10. Back-Biting and Self-Promotion: The Work of Merchants of the Cairo Geniza, by Jessica Goldberg11. John of Salisbury and the Civic Utility of Religion, by Mark SilkPart III. Cognition, Composition, and Contagion12. Understanding Contagion: The Contaminating Effect of Another's Sin, by Susan R. Kramer13. Calvin's Smile, by John Jeffries Martin14. Why All the Fuss About the Mind? A Medievalist's Perspective on Cognitive Theory, by Anne L. Clark15. Aspects of Blood Piety in a Late-Medieval English Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 37049, by Marlene Villalobos Hennessy16. Machiavelli, Trauma, and the Scandal of The Prince: An Essay in Speculative History, by Alison K. FrazierPart IV. The Matter of Person17. Low Country Ascetics and Oriental Luxury: Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the Treasures of Oignies, by Sharon Farmer18. Crystalline Wombs and Pregnant Hearts: The Exuberant Bodies of the Katharinenthal Visitation Group, by Jacqueline E. Jung19. Gluttony and the Anthropology of Pain in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, by Manuele Gragnolati20. "Human Heaven": John of Rupescissa's Alchemy at the End of the World, by Leah DeVun21. Magic, Bodies, University Masters, and the Invention of the Late Medieval Witch, by Steven P. MarroneAfterword: History in the Comic Mode, by Rachel Fulton and Bruce HolsingerNotesContributorsIndex