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

Pablo Acosta-García, Ph.D. (2009), Pompeu Fabra University, is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He has been a Marie Curie Fellow at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany) and a María Zambrano Postdoctoral Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). His work includes edited books, and numerous articles and book chapters on medieval and early modern mystic women, including the first annotated translation of Angela da Foligno's Memoriale into Spanish (Siruela, 2009).

• FundingForewordAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNote on citing the manuscripts of the sermons of the ConorteTranscription principles for Conorte (and other manuscripts and printed matter cited)Introduction1 Pathways to Preaching2 Pathways to Rapture3 Conceptual Reflections1 Material. The Conorte as a Textual Artefact1 Introduction2 The Codices of the Conorte and Juana de la Cruz’s Canonization Process3 The El Escorial Manuscript4 The Vatican Manuscript5 Juana’s Preaching and the Date of Production of the Manuscripts6 Conclusions2 Textual. The Architecture of the Sermon Book1 Performance, Memory, Text2 Textualization Processes3 Difference, Amplification, and Recreation4 Cyclicity and Amalgam5 Conclusions3 Intertextual. Towards a Genealogy of the Visionary Sermon1 Introduction2 Hildegard von Bingen and the Degrees of the Open Word3 Elisabeth von Schönau and the Liturgical Vision4 Mechthild von Hackeborn and Communal Writing5 Domenica da Paradiso and the New Prophetic Preaching6 Conclusions4 Hermeneutical. Liturgical Vision in the Conorte1 Introduction: Liturgy and exegesis2 Liturgical Anchoring and Exegetic Commentary3 Sermon Form4 Case Analyses4.1 Septuagesima Sunday4.2 In festo S. Laurentii Martyris4.3 In Dominica Quadragesimae5 ConclusionsConclusionsBibliographyIndex

"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