The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) : Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing (The Medieval Franciscans)

Acosta García, Pablo

Brill（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004515642

Full Description

Step into the world of 16th-century Castile, where a devout community of Franciscan women preserved the public preaching of their visionary abbess, Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), through writing. This groundbreaking book uncovers how her sermons were recorded, explores the materiality of the surviving codices, and reveals their role in the controversial censorship and blocking of Juana's canonization. Tracing the rich tradition of the liturgical vision (12th-16th centuries), it delves into female literacy and the creation of collective knowledge in female religious houses around Europe. Featuring rare insights and fresh evaluations of historical texts, this volume illuminates the intersection of female prophetic preaching, community, and the written word at the end of the Middle Ages.

Contents

Funding

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Note on citing the manuscripts of the sermons of the Conorte

Transcription principles for Conorte (and other manuscripts and printed matter cited)

Introduction

1 Pathways to Preaching

2 Pathways to Rapture

3 Conceptual Reflections

1 Material. The Conorte as a Textual Artefact

  1 Introduction

  2 The Codices of the Conorte and Juana de la Cruz's Canonization Process

  3 The El Escorial Manuscript

  4 The Vatican Manuscript

  5 Juana's Preaching and the Date of Production of the Manuscripts

  6 Conclusions

2 Textual. The Architecture of the Sermon Book

  1 Performance, Memory, Text

  2 Textualization Processes

  3 Difference, Amplification, and Recreation

  4 Cyclicity and Amalgam

  5 Conclusions

3 Intertextual. Towards a Genealogy of the Visionary Sermon

  1 Introduction

  2 Hildegard von Bingen and the Degrees of the Open Word

  3 Elisabeth von Schönau and the Liturgical Vision

  4 Mechthild von Hackeborn and Communal Writing

  5 Domenica da Paradiso and the New Prophetic Preaching

  6 Conclusions

4 Hermeneutical. Liturgical Vision in the Conorte

  1 Introduction: Liturgy and exegesis

  2 Liturgical Anchoring and Exegetic Commentary

  3 Sermon Form

  4 Case Analyses

    4.1 Septuagesima Sunday

    4.2 In festo S. Laurentii Martyris

    4.3 In Dominica Quadragesimae

  5 Conclusions

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index