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Holy fools and divine madmen : sacred insanity through ages and cultures

Title
  1. Holy fools and divine madmen : sacred insanity through ages and cultures / Albrecht Berger and Sergey Ivanov (eds.).
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  1. Neuried : Ars una, [2018]

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Additional authors
  1. Berger, Albrecht, 1957-
  2. Ivanov, S. A. (Sergeĭ Arkadʹevich), 1956-
Description
  1. 294 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. "The concept of sacred insanity is widespread among many religions of the world and through many ages and cultures. The present volume collects the contributions of the symposium Holy Fools and Divine Madmen, held in Munich 2015. Employing interdisciplinary approaches these studies cover a wide geographical and cultural range, from Byzantium westward to Italy and Ireland, and eastward to Islamic Iran, and to India and Tibet."--
Series statement
  1. Münchner Arbeiten zur Byzantinistik ; Band 2
Uniform title
  1. Münchner Arbeiten zur Byzantinistik ; Bd. 2.
Alternative title
  1. Sacred insanity through ages and cultures
Subject
  1. Holy fools
  2. Holy fools > History > Congresses
  3. India
  4. Europe
  5. Holy fools > Europe > Congresses
  6. History
  7. Byzantine Empire
  8. Holy fools > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > Congresses
  9. Holy fools > Ireland > Congresses
  10. China > Tibet Autonomous Region
  11. Holy fools > India > Congresses
  12. Conference papers and proceedings
  13. Ireland
  14. Holy fools > Byzantine Empire > Congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. The city became a desert: forcing the first holy fools into a context / Andrew Thomas -- From comedy to martyrdom: the shifting theology of the holy fool from Symeon of Emesa to Andrew / Derek Krueger -- Holy foolery as an ambiguous sanctity by Nikon of the black mount / Sergey Ivanov -- The doubts about the Saloi in the middle and late Byzantine periods and their apologetic reuse in two lives of Saloi / Vincent Déroche -- Holy fools in medieval Western Europe: from practice to theory (XIII-XVI century) / Isabella Gagliardi -- Saints and fools in early Medieval Ireland / Alexandra Bergholm -- The Qalandar in the Persianate world: the case of Fakhroddin 'Arāqi / Ashk Dahlén -- Divine madness and holy fools in India: the Bengali tradition of Paglami and Divyonmada / June McDaniel -- Holy fools in Tibet and the Himalayas / Franz-Karl Ehrhard -- Theatrical and performative elements in the phenomenon of the holy fool / Tihana Maravić -- Holy fools in modern Greece / Albrecht Berger.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. "The contributions collected here ... were first presented in a symposium held at he Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on the 11th and 12th September 2015...."--Page 4.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.