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ACUTE MEL ANCHOLIA and Other Essays MYSTICISM, HISTORY, AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION AMY HOLLY WOOD ACUTE MELANCHOLIA and Other Essays GENDER, THEORY, AND RELIGION GENDER, THEORY, AND RELIGION Amy Hollywood, Editor The Gender, Theory, and Religion series provides a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of the study of gender, sexuality, and religion. Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, Elizabeth A. Castelli When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David, Susan Ackerman Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity, Jennifer Wright Knust Bodily Citations: Religion and Judith Butler, Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville, editors Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World, Kimberly B. Stratton Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts, L. 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Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016. | Series: Gender, theory, and religion | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015027599 | ISBN 9780231156431 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231156448 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231527439 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Christianity—Philosophy. | Experience (Religion) | Mysticism. | Religion—Philosophy. Classification: LCC BR100 .H6155 2016 | DDC 270—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015027599 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover and book design: Lisa Hamm Cover image: Two Fragments of a Pietà, Prague, around 1400 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Fabian Fröhlicich References to websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. In memory of my brothers and sister, Pedro, Michael, Mary, and Daniel, and of friends dead too young: . . . and with each a limb of our own lives cut off. Exactly why we should be expected to talk about it, I don’t know. —Henry Adams • CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Triptych 1 On the True, the Real, and Critique; By Way of an Introduction 2 Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real 19 The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy 44 PART I(cid:2) 65 1 Acute Melancholia 67 PART II. HISTORY(cid:2) 91 2 Feminist Studies in Christian Spirituality 93 3 Gender, Agency, and the Divine in Religious Historiography 117 4 Reading as Self-Annihilation: On Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls 129 PART III. SEXUALITY(cid:2) 147 5 Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines 149 6 The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages 163 7 “That Glorious Slit”: Irigaray and the Medieval Devotion to Christ’s Side Wound 171 VIII(cid:2)CONTENTS PART IV. PRACTICE(cid:2) 189 8 Inside Out: Beatrice of Nazareth and Her Hagiographer 191 9 Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization 213 10 Practice, Belief, and Feminist Philosophy of Religion 233 PART V(cid:2) 251 11 Love of Neighbor and Love of God: Martha and Mary in the Christian Middle Ages 253 Notes 271 Sources 375 Index 377 ILLUSTRATIONS 0.1 The Mystery of the Hereafter and the Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, from the memorial to Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams 20 0.2. The mother of Jesse, depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 21 0.3 White-robed Bodhisattva of Compassion 23 0.4 Mourners (Pleurant), from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria 24 0.5 The Tomb of Philippe Pot, Lord of La Roche-Pot 25 0.6 Madonna of Bruges 26 0.7 Medici Madonna 27 0.8 Pietà 28 0.9 Funerary statue from Laurel Hill Cemetery 31 7.1 Passional of Abbess Kunigunde of Bohemia 174 7.2 Vision des Heiligen Bernhard (sogenanntes Blutkruzifixus) 177 7.3 Villers Miscellany 180 7.4 Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg 181 7.5 The Wounds of Christ with the Symbols of the Passion 183
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