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[ecrea] New book publication: Medieval Saints and Modern Screens

Mon Dec 04 21:19:31 GMT 2017




I’m delighted to announce the publication of my first book: /Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience/, now available from Amsterdam University Press <http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462982277-medieval-saints-and-modern-screens.html> (AUP).

In /Medieval Saints and Modern Screens/, I bring theoretical perspectives from twenty-first-century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. So doing, I stake the claim for a new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as cinematic media. Modern sources are drawn from a variety of pop-cultural media, including blockbuster movie /The Dark Knight/, Kim Kardashian West’s social media channels, and outputs of the immersive online environment Second Life. This material is placed in dialogue with the corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies of the “Holy Women of Liège”, and their visionary successors – in particular Margery Kempe.

For more details, please see the full book jacket blurb on the AUP website <http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462982277-medieval-saints-and-modern-screens.html> or print flyer here <http://en.aup.nl/download.php?file=Medieval%20Saints%20and%20Modern%20Screens%20Book%20Flyer%202017.pdf>. In addition, *th**e Table of Contents and full Introduction are available to read – and download – here*: http://en.aup.nl/download/9789048532179%20ToC%20+%20Intro.pdf.

*To purchase the book,*please go to the AUP website: http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462982277-medieval-saints-and-modern-screens.html. Use the discount voucher “Pub_MedievalSaintsandModernScreens” (inputted without quotation marks) before 1^st February 2018 *to get 20% off the list price.*

If you would like *a review copy,* please don’t hesitate to get in touch with AUP directly, by emailing Lucia Dove ((L.Dove /at/ aup.nl) <mailto:(L.Dove /at/ aup.nl)?subject=Requesting%20review%20copy:%20Spencer-Hall,%20Medieval%20Saints%20and%20Modern%20Screens>). **


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