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Portrait de Marthe Robin
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ISBN: 2246362210 9782246362210 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : B. Grasset,


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Stigmatics and visual culture in late medieval and early modern Italy
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ISBN: 9789048554621 9789463724562 9463724567 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata stimulated controversy. Related to this were issues that were deeply rooted in contemporary visual culture such as how stigmata were described and performed and whether, or how, it was legitimate to represent stigmata in visual art. Because of the contested nature of stigmata and because stigmata did not always manifest in the same form - sometimes invisible, sometimes visible only periodically, sometimes miraculous, and sometimes self-inflicted - they provoked complex questions and reflections relating to the nature and purpose of visual representation.


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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950 : Between Saints and Celebrities
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ISBN: 9789004439191 9004439196 9789004439351 9004439358 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV,

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In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the 'saints' and religious 'celebrities' of their time. With their 'miraculous' bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious 'celebrities'.

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