Diocesan synods in late medieval Italy -- A medieval census: the Liber divisionis -- Rome on the eve of the great schism -- The gender and number of the Evangelical Magi -- Dreams of the three kings -- Triumph and mourning in North Italian Magi art -- Ludic life in New Spain: the emperor and his three kings -- Francis of Assisi, his mother's son -- The stigmatized body of Francis of Assissi: conceived, processed, disappeared -- Florentine theatre, 1280-1500: a checklist of performances and institutions -- From the mouths of babes: Christianization by children in sixteenth-century New Spain -- At the right hand of God: organization of life by the holy dead in New Spain -- Legitimating prayer gestures in the twelfth century: the De penitentia of Peter the Chanter -- Dressing and undressing images: an analytic sketch -- The construction of regional solidarities in traditional Europe -- Bending over backwards: prayer posture and sexual posture in traditional Europe and America -- The talking image: an attempt at typology, using Spanish sources of the sixteenth century -- Historiography sacred or profane? Reverence and profanity in the study of early modern religion -- Gendering Jesus crucified -- An early printed text against homosexual behavior (c. 1485) -- Dressing like a woman: the case of the Berdache -- Gender subordination and political hierarchy in prehispanic America.
Series:
Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; v. 238
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