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| Preface | ix | |
| Abbreviations | xiii | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part 1 | New Paradigms, Traditional Tools | |
| 1 | Monastic Memory and the Mutation of the Year Thousand | 19 |
| 2 | Perennial Prayer at Agaune | 37 |
| 3 | Claustration and Collaboration between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium | 57 |
| Part 2 | Texts and Contexts | |
| 4 | Sulmona Society and the Miracles of Peter of Morrone | 79 |
| 5 | Female Religious Experience and Society in Thirteenth-Century Italy | 97 |
| 6 | Saints and Angry Neighbors: The Politics of Cursing in Irish Hagiography | 123 |
| Part 3 | Rethinking Binaries | |
| 7 | The Beggar's Body: Intersections of Gender and Social Status in High Medieval Paris | 153 |
| 8 | The Leper's Kiss | 172 |
| 9 | The Colonization of Sacred Architecture: The Virgin Mary, Mosques, and Temples in Medieval Spain and Early Sixteenth-Century Mexico | 189 |
| 10 | Saints, Heretics, and Fire: Finding Meaning through the Ordeal | 220 |
| Contributors | 239 | |
| Index | 243 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
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Charles Thompson
reviewed Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts on December 27, 2015 Monks and Nuns
I first heard of Joan of Naples - under her "real" name, Giovanna - through Marjorie Bowen's historical novel, "The Sword Decides!" It captured my imagination, so - having also enjoyed two other volumes in Alexandre Dumas's Celebrated Crimes series - I expected great things from this.
Well, a few parts here and there engaged me, but on the whole I found this a hard slog. Problems I had with it is having countless characters thrust upon me, extensive sections of dialogue that sound unnatural, and condensed third-person paragraphs that drag on far too long.
I feel this would've worked better as full-blown historical fiction or as a "proper" biography. This is a biography written as though it was historical fiction. Although this worked fine with other episodes in the series, it fell flat with "Joan of Naples".
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