Amy Hollywood 
Acute Melancholia and Other Essays [EPUB ebook] 
Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Triptych
Part I
1. Acute Melancholia
Part II. History
2. Feminist Studies in Christian Spirituality
3. On Gender, Agency, and the Divine in Religious Historiography
4. Reading as Self-Annihilation: On Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls
Part III. Sexuality
5. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines
6. The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages
7. ‘That Glorious Slit’: Irigaray and the Medieval Devotion to Christ’s Side Wound
Part IV. Practice
8. Inside Out: Beatrice of Nazareth and Her Hagiographer
9. Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization
10. Practice, Belief, and Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Part V
11. Love of Neighbor and Love of God: Martha and Mary in the Christian Middle Ages
Notes
Sources
Index

Amy Hollywood is the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History and the award-winning
The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. She is the coeditor, with Patricia Z. Beckman, of
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism.