Medieval Saints and Modern Screens : Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience /

The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liege" corpus presents biographies filled with dramatic visions of God and intense physical unions with Christ. The texts that make up the collection demonstrate the problematic division of body and soul in the period and al...

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Autore principale: Spencer-Hall, Alicia (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
  • Introduction : Ecstatic cinema, cinematic ecstasy
  • Play/pause/rewind : temporalities in flux
  • The caress of the divine gaze
  • The Xtian factor, or How to manufacture a medieval saint
  • My avatar, my soul : when mystics log on
  • Conclusion : The living Veronicas of Liege.