Pazze di Lui - Mad for Him: Hagiographic Stereotypes, Mental Disturbances and Anthropological Implications of Female Saintliness in Italy and Abroad from the 13th to the 20th Century

The aim of this book is to investigate the delicate relationship between female sanctity and madness, in a time-frame extending from medieval until contemporary times. Constellated by visions, ecstatic raptures, morbid rituals, stigmata and obsessions, the complex phenomenology of female mysticism appears in fact to be articulated and polymorphous, traversed by 'representations' that it seems possible to link to the wide spectrum of mental disorders, as well to the hagiographic stereotypes and anthropological implications. Male and female scholars from different disciplines (from history to philology, from anthropology to art history, from theology to literary criticism, from psychiatry to psychoanalysis) try to outline a thematic and problematic itinerary, intended to examine, step by step, potential pathological aspects and contexts of reference for the purpose of attempting to reconstruct the complex evolutionary trajectory of female mystical language.

Auteur

Mattia Zangari courrently is Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Venice (Ca'Foscari).

Contenu
Mattia Zangari Paroxysms, stigmata and dolls in convents. Female Sanctity and Mental Illness between the Middle Ages and the Modern Ages (introduction) Isabella Gagliardi Discretio, diagnosi e patente di santità alla prova della "pazzia" (secc. XI-XIV) Maurizio Gronchi Sante e malate, non solo d'amore? Uno sguardo storico-teologico Martina Bengert, André Otto Between Pathology and Pathos. Spectacular Utterances in The Book of Margery Kempe Alfonsina Bellio Un ? Femminilità profetiche tra letture di tipo psicopatologico e antropologia Mattia Zangari Female Visionary Saints: an alternative Interpretation. Female sanctity, Visionaryism and Hysteria in the Medieval and Modern Age Torsten Passie, Elisabeth Petrow The Ecstasies of St. Teresa of Avila. Phenomenology, Illness and Resilience Armando Maggi L'abbandono al Male. Le esperienze di Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi e Veronica Giuliani . Rudolph M. Bell Saint Veronica Giuliani. The Five Autobiographies of Orsolina Giuliani Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers, Linde Tuybens Mystical phenomena as symptoms of social disease . Manuela Fraire (a cura di Greta Maria Alessia Redaelli) Baby doll. La "maternità" in convento Chiara Basta Tra pedagogia e amour fou. Il culto di Gesù bambino nei monasteri femminili (secoli XV-XVII) Curricula Index of names