Sacred and the Sinister

David J. Collins, S.J., is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Flirting Between Heaven and HellDavid J. Collins, S.J.Part 1: Traditional Holiness1. Extreme Sanctity at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Metamorphosis of Body and Community in the Vitae of Christina Mirabilis and Francis of AssisiClaire Fanger2. The Sources and Significance of Stefania’s New Statement on Margherita Colonna’s Perfection of the VirtuesSean L. FieldPart 2: Conflicts over the Holy3. Materializing Conflict: How Parish Communities RememberTheir Medieval PastsKristi Woodward Bain4. Rape and Rapture: Violence, Ambiguity, and Raptus in Medieval ThoughtElizabeth Casteen5. Syneisaktism : Sacred Partnership and Sinister ScandalMaeve B. CallanPart 3: Identifying and Grappling with the Unholy6. Was Magic a Religious Movement?Michael D. Bailey7. The Jurisdiction of Medieval Inquisitors over Jews and Muslims: Nicholas Eymeric’s Contra infideles demones invocantesKatelyn Mesler8. Magicking Madness: Secret Workings and Public Narratives of Disordered Minds in Late Medieval GermanyAnne M. KoenigPart 4: Magic and the Cosmos9. A Late Medieval Demonic Invasion of the HeavensSophie Page10. Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2David J. Collins, S.J.Selected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“This collection of essays brings together two areas that are still often looked at separately: the history of magic and the history of saints, mystics, and more everyday parishioners. As well as celebrating the work of Richard Kieckhefer, Collins’s volume showcases the original work being done by leading scholars in the field. It should stimulate new work on the relationship between holiness and unholiness in the Middle Ages.”—Catherine Rider, author of Magic and Religion in Medieval England