Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators

John W. Coakley

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January, 2006
Cloth, 368 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13400-2
$55.00 / £38.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction. "You Draw Us After You"

1. The Powers of Holy Women

2. Revelation and Authority in Ekbert and Elisabeth of Schönau

3. A Shared Endeavor? Guibert of Gembloux on Hildegard of Bingen

4. James of Vitry and the Other World of Mary of Oignies

5. Self and Saint: Peter of Dacia on Christine of Stommeln

6. Hagiography and Theology in the Memorial of Angela of Foligno

7. The Limits of Religious Authority: Margaret of Cortona and Giunta Bevegnati

8. Hagiography in Process: Henry of Nördlingen and Margaret Ebner

9. Managing Holiness: Raymond of Capua and Catherine of Siena

10. Revelation and Authority Revisited: John Marienwerder on Dorothy of Montau

11. Authority and Female Sanctity: Conclusions

Notes

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

John W. Coakley is the L. Russell Feakes Professor of Church History, New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor (with Andrea Sterk) of Readings in World Christian History.

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