4 Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Flirting Between Heaven and Hell 1
5. Part 1: Traditional Holiness
6. 1 Extreme Sanctity at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Metamorphosis of Body and Community in the Vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of Assisi 15
7. 2 The Sources and Significance of Stefania’s New Statement on Margherita Colonna’s Perfection of the Virtues 41
8. Part 2: Conflicts over the Holy
9. 3 Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities Remember Their Medieval Pasts 71
10. 4 Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval Thought 91
11. 5 Syneisaktism: Sacred Partnership and Sinister Scandal 117
12. Part 3: Identifying and Grappling with the Unholy
13. 6 Was Magic a Religious Movement 143
14. 7 The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric’s Contra infideles demones invocantes 163
15. 8 Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval Germany 200
16. Part 4: Magic and the Cosmos
17. 9 A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the Heavens 233
18. 10 Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2 255
19. Selected bibliography 277
20. List of contributors 283
21. Index 287