Professor of Religious Studies Derek Krueger's Books

Symeon the Holy Fool

Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City

By: Derek Krueger,Professor of Religious Studies Derek Krueger,Leontius (Bishop of Neapolis)

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Symeon the Holy Fool

Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City

By: Derek Krueger,Professor of Religious Studies Derek Krueger,Leontius (Bishop of Neapolis)

This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the Life was created and opens a window onto the Christian religious imagination at the end of Late Antiquity. He explores the concept of holy folly by relating Symeon's life to the gospels, to earlier hagiography, and to anecdotes about Diogenes the Cynic. The Life is one of the strangest works of the Late Antique hagiography. Symeon seemed a bizarre choice for sanctification, since it was through very peculiar antics that he converted heretics and reformed sinners. Symeon acted like a fool, walked about naked, ate enormous quantities of beans, and defecated in the streets. When he arrived in Emesa, Symeon tied a dead dog he found on a dunghill to his belt and entered the city gate, dragging the dog behind him. Krueger presents a provocative interpretation of how these bizarre antics came to be instructive examples to everyday Christians.

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Univ of California Press

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0520089111

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9780520089112

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

By: Professor Lisa Hopkins

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Renaissance Drama on the Edge

By: Professor Lisa Hopkins

Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.

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300

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472405811

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9781472405814

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

By: Professor Robert E Stillman

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Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

By: Professor Robert E Stillman

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain. Offering a fresh interpretation of Sidney's celebration of fiction-making, Stillman locates the origins of his poetics inside a neglected historical community: the intellectual elite associated with Philip Melanchthon (leader of the German Reformation after Luther), the so-called Philippists. As a challenge to traditional Anglo-centric scholarship, his study demonstrates how Sidney's education by Continental Philippists enabled him to dignify fiction-making as a compelling form of public discourse-compelling because of its promotion of powerful new concepts about reading and writing, its ecumenical piety, and its political ambition to secure through natural law (from universal 'Ideas') freedom from the tyranny of confessional warfare. Intellectually ambitious and wide-ranging, this study draws together various elements of contemporary scholarship in literary, religious, and political history in order to afford a broader understanding of the Defence and the cultural context inside which Sidney produced both his poetry and his poetics.

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290

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475026

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9781409475026

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas

By: Professor Lisa M Rafanelli,Professor Erin E Benay

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Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas

By: Professor Lisa M Rafanelli,Professor Erin E Benay

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief.

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1472444736

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9781472444738

Book's by Professor of Religious Studies Derek Krueger

Symeon the Holy Fool

Symeon the Holy Fool

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

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