Tempting the Tempter : Imitatio Christi and the encounters of Quattrocento holy women with the Devil / by Amy R. Huesman.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

©2024

vi, 226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2021, under the title: The wilderness experience : Imitatio Christi and the demonic encounters of Italian holy women of the Quattrocento.

"Tempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. This work explores how these women actively pursued encounters with the Devil, and how these private temptations prepared them for a public ministry of miracles, contributed to their perception as living saints, and allowed their biographers to promote them as true imitators of Christ, worthy of sainthood"-- Provided by publisher.

English

February 06, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.