The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) : Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing /

The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) : Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing /

Step into the world of 16th-century Castile, where a devout community of Franciscan women preserved the public preaching of their visionary abbess, Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), through writing. This groundbreaking book uncovers how her sermons were recorded, explores the materiality of the survivin...

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Main Author: Acosta-García, Pablo (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
The Medieval Franciscans ; 25.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Funding
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on citing the manuscripts of the sermons of the Conorte
  • Transcription principles for Conorte (and other manuscripts and printed matter cited)
  • Introduction
  • 1 Pathways to Preaching
  • 2 Pathways to Rapture
  • 3 Conceptual Reflections
  • 1 The Conorte as a Textual Artefact
  •   1 Introduction
  •   2 The Codices of the Conorte and Juana de la Cruz's Canonization Process
  •   3 The El Escorial Manuscript
  •   4 The Vatican Manuscript
  •   5 Juana's Preaching and the Date of Production of the Manuscripts
  •   6 Conclusions
  • 2 The Architecture of the Sermon Book
  •   1 Performance, Memory, Text
  •   2 Textualization Processes
  •   3 Difference, Amplification, and Recreation
  •   4 Cyclicity and Amalgam
  •   5 Conclusions
  • 3 Towards a Genealogy of the Visionary Sermon
  •   1 Introduction
  •   2 Hildegard von Bingen and the Degrees of the Open Word
  •   3 Elisabeth von Schönau and the Liturgical Vision
  •   4 Mechthild von Hackeborn and Communal Writing
  •   5 Domenica da Paradiso and the New Prophetic Preaching
  •   6 Conclusions
  • 4 Liturgical Vision in the Conorte
  •   1 Introduction: Liturgy and exegesis
  •   2 Liturgical Anchoring and Exegetic Commentary
  •   3 Sermon Form
  •   4 Case Analyses
  •     4.1 Septuagesima Sunday
  •     4.2 In festo S. Laurentii Martyris
  •     4.3 In Dominica Quadragesimae
  •   5 Conclusions
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.