Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
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female mysticism
forthcoming
gendered experience of stigmata
italy
medieval religious art
miraculous phenomena
religious iconography
sainthood representation
stigmata
visual culture
visual theology
women
wounds
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- ISBN 9781041186625
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata stimulated controversy. Related to this were issues that were deeply rooted in contemporary visual culture such as how stigmata were described and performed and whether, or how, it was legitimate to represent stigmata in visual art. Because of the contested nature of stigmata and because stigmata did not always manifest in the same form - sometimes invisible, sometimes visible only periodically, sometimes miraculous, and sometimes self-inflicted - they provoked complex questions and reflections relating to the nature and purpose of visual representation.
Dr Cordelia Warr is Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Dressing for Heaven (2010), and has co-edited Wounds in the Middle Ages (2013) with Anne Kirkham, Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1714 (2010) and The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina (2004) with Janis Elliott, as well as special issues of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (2018) and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (2022) with Anne Dunlop.
