Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material

Jenni Kuuliala is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland. Rose-Marie Peake is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland. Päivi Räisänen-Schröder is Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

• 1. Introduction: Hagiography & Lived Religion; Jenni Kuuliala, Rose-Marie Peake, and Päivi Räisänen-Schröder.- 2. Intimate Enemies: Religious Difference in Seventeenth-Century French Catholic Hagiography; Barbara B. Diefendorf.- 3. Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns; Christopher J. Lane.- 4. Saintly Shepherdesses: Semi-religious Women and Identity Formation in Seventeenth-Century France; Rose-Marie Peake.- 5. From an Experiencer to a Saintly Man: Losing Biography, Gaining Hagiography in the Accounts of Marian Apparitions in Early Modern Poland; Tomasz Wiślicz.- 6. Sleeping with the Enemy: Infertility and Wife Murder in a Miracle of St. Peter Martyr; Diana Bullen Presciutti.- 7. ‘When the Fury of the Proud Sea Re-Awoke’: Water, Devotion, and Lived Experience in Renaissance Venice; Karen McCluskey.- 8. Everyday Miracles in Seventeenth-Century Spain; Thomas C. Devaney.- 9. Narrating Pain and Healing in Andrieu de la Vigne, Mystère de saint Martin (1496); Andreea Marculescu.- 10. The Seriousness of Comedy in the ‘Redentin Easter play’ (ca. 1460): Forms, Functions, and Potential Effects; Florian M. Schmid.- 11. Cure, Community, and the Miraculous in Early Modern Florence; Jenni Kuuliala.- 12. The Sacred in Everyday Spaces: Discerning African Voices in the Canonisation Inquest of San Pedro Claver; Ronald J. Morgan.