The martyrdom of Agnes Takeda and companions

P. 397-425

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Background and chapter summary
  • Assembling crucified saints : from gnostic doubles to affirmations of the incarnation
  • Debating about the cross : the rhetoric of crucifixion in the Passio Sancti Andreae Apostoli (BHL 428)
  • The torture of the cross and the crucifixion in Latin hagiography from late antiquity to the Middle Ages
  • Cross and crucifixion in Iamblichus' novel
  • Christus eam thalamo crucis dotavit : Julia, the crucified saint
  • Modelling crucifixion from Peter of Capitolias to Furṭūn ibn Muḥammad (d. 939 CE)
  • Symbolic crucifixion and royal sainthood : two examples from Benedictine Saints' Lives (c. 985-c. 1120)
  • Crucifixion in the Legend of Saint Bartholomew
  • Our way of life : the crucifixion of the regular clergy and its tools
  • Wilgefortis as a portuguese ambassador : how Portugal took hold of the Spanish Liberata
  • Saint Dismas : the good thief in Holy Week processions
  • Vita icons of Saint Paraskeva : allusions to the crucifixion in the torture scenes of the saint
  • Más a Cristo has de imitar : Francisquito's queer role in Cervantes' Los baños de Argel
  • The martyrdom of Agnes Takeda and companions
  • Italian hagiographic literature on the twenty-six martyrs of Japan (17th-19th centuries)
  • Re-framing the crucifixion : twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and the cross
  • Contributors
• Information

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