Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies
by
Rachel J. D. Smith, Amy Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints,...