Excessive Saints: Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré's Mystical Hagiographies

by Rachel J.D. Smith

For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpr , 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, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day.

In Excessive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231188609
• ISBN13: 9780231188609
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"