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Pablo Acosta García - Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534)

Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing

Av Pablo Acosta García

Del 25 i serien Medieval Franciscans

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Winner of the 2026 Hagiography Society Book PrizeStep 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.Hagiography Society Book Prize Committee's statement:This exceptionally well researched and documented book achieves two key objectives, on the one hand offering readers an invaluable reappraisal of the life and works of Juana de la Cruz, while on the other, locating her production within the broader international perspective of mystical female spirituality and visionary experience. Throughout the book, the author demonstrates considerable investigative skill and conceptual subtlety, questioning and challenging existing critical commonplaces to produce an innovative and groundbreaking study that will make it an essential point of departure for the elaboration of future work on sermon literature, the history of preaching, and studies on female mysticism more broadly—both within Iberia and beyond.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-18
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 584 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Medieval Franciscans
  • Antal sidor: 250
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004515642
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Pablo Acosta-García is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project Soundspace at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2023–2026), a María Zambrano Postdoctoral Fellow at the UAB’s Renaissance Studies Seminar (2021–2023), and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute of Medieval History, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany (2019–2021), where he led the project Late Medieval Visionary Women’s Impact in Early Modern Castilian Spiritual Tradition (WIMPACT) as Principal Investigator. He has published extensively on medieval and early modern women’s writing, materiality and gender, and mystical and devotional literature. He produced the first Spanish translation and annotated edition of the Memoriale by the Franciscan tertiary Angela of Foligno (Siruela, 2014) and co-edited Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experiences in the Late Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is currently co-editing, with Michael Hahn, A Companion to Angela of Foligno (Brill, forthcoming). His most recent monograph is The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534): Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing (Brill, 2025).

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"The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) [...] represents a pioneering contribution to the broader study of female preaching in premodern Europe. By illuminating the performative, creative, and theological dimensions of Juana’s sermons and their manuscript history, Acosta-García challenges long-standing assumptions about women’s roles in religious leadership." – Carolyn Muessig, University of Calgary, Department of Classics and Religion, 15 December 2024"The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz can now be considered the most comprehensive and methodologically rigorous study devoted to the work of the Franciscan tertiary. Its combination of codicological analysis, a comparative European perspective, liturgical interpretation, and reflection on collective authorship makes this volume an essential reference for scholarship on female mysticism, the history of preaching, and medieval and early modern sermon literature." – Blanca Garí, Universidad de Barcelona, in: Edad Media. Revista de Historia 27 (2026), 591-593 [DOI: 10.24197/q4jvtk29]"The volume’s philological rigour and meticulous comparison of the manuscript evidence are among its particular strengths. It makes a compelling case for situating Juana within this tradition [of female prophetic preaching], establishing her as an essential point of reference for future scholarship." – Lola Peña-Fernández, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in: Anuario de estudios medievales 56/1 (2026), 1617 [DOI: 10.3989/aem.2026.56.1.1617]

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