The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 : Between Saints and Celebrities
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical...
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Brill
2020
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