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The Mystical Science of the Soul
Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo’s Recollection Method
Jessica A. Boon
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined
influence of medieval discourses of science and
spiritua lity on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre
of recollection mysticism that served as the driving
force behind the principal developments in Golden
Age mysticism. Building on recent research in medieval
optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional
practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A.
Boon probes the implications of an ‘embodied soul’
for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.
Boon proposes a fundamental rereading of the
key recogimiento text Subida del Monte Sión
(1535/1538), which melds the traditionally distinct
spiritual techniques of moral self-examination, Passion
meditation, and negative theology into one cognitively
adept path towards mystical union. She is also the
first English-language scholar to treat the author of
this influential work – the Renaissance physician
Bernardino de Laredo, a pivotal figure in the transition
from medieval to early modern spirituality on the
Iberian peninsula and a source for Teresa of Avila’s
mystical language.
Jessica A. Boon is an assistant professor in the Department
of Religious Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(Toronto Iberic)
Approx. 320 pp / 7 illustrations / 6 x 9 / July 2012
Cloth 978-1-4426-4428-1 $65.00 (£45.99)
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Redrawing the Map of Early Modern
English Catholicism
Edited by Lowell Gallagher
The tumultuous climate of early modern England
had a profound effect on its Catholic population’s
domestic life, social customs, literary inventions,
and political arguments. Redrawing the Map of
Early Modern English Catholicism explores the broad
spectrum of the early modern English Catholic
experience, presenting fresh and often startling
assessments of the most problematic topics in post-
Reformation English Catholicism.
The contributors to this volume – all leading and
rising scholars of early modern studies – conceptualize
English Catholicism as a hazardous series of contested
territories divided by shifting boundaries, requiring
Catholics to navigate with vigilance and diplomacy
their status as ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders.’ This collection
also presents new ways to understand the connections
between reformist and Catholic inflections in the
emerging canon of English poetry, despite the
eventual marginalization of Catholic poets in English
literary history.
Lowell Gallagher is an associate professor in the
Department of English at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
(UCLA Clark Library Series 17)
Approx. 360 pp / 7 illustrations / 6 x 9 / June 2012
Cloth 978-1-4426-4312-3 $75.00 (£48.00)
The Calling of the Nations
Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present
Edited by Mark Vessey, Sharon V. Betcher,
Robert A. Daum, and Harry O. Maier
Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary
criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume
discuss the ways in which biblical understandings
have shaped Western – and particularly European
and North American – assumptions about the nature
and meaning of the nation. This collection moves
from the earliest Pauline and rabbinic exegesis
through Christian imperial and missionary narratives
of the late Roman, medieval, and early modern periods
to the entangled identity politics of ‘mainstream’
nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America.
Mark Vessey is a professor in the Department of
English and Canada Research Chair in Literature /
Christianity and Culture at the University of British
Columbia. Sharon V. Betcher is an associate professor
of Theology at Vancouver School of Theology. Robert
A. Daum is an associate professor of Rabbinic
Literature and Jewish Thought and Director of Iona
Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at Vancouver School
of Theology. Harry O. Maier is a professor of New
Testament and Early Christian Studies at Vancouver
School of Theology.
‘No other volume provides such a wide range of
perspectives on post-colonial readings of the Bible,
nor a self-critical reflection on the method itself.’
Richard Ascough, Queen’s University
(Green College Thematic Lecture Series)
384 pp / 8 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2011
Cloth 978-0-8020-9241-0 $75.00 (£52.99)
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