Saint Hysteria PDF book is popular Christian women saints book written by Cristina Mazzoni. The book was released by Cornell University Press on 1996 with total hardcover pages 260. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Saint Hysteria by Cristina Mazzoni in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Saint Hysteria examines scientific, literary, and religious texts that share a fascination with the otherness of the female body, whether in ecstatic pleasure o
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and
The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable account
Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, han
Hysteria formed a medical category during the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. By tracing its transformations, Sabine Arnaud reveals what was at stake
