Jessica A Boon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica A Boon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica A |
| FAMILY NAME | Boon |
| SIGNATURE | BOON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5794-856X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mourning and anger at the foot of the cross
The Latin Marian lament "Quis dabit" (literally "Who will give") began circulating in thirteenth-century Castile and León at a time when devotion to the Virgin Mary was principally associated with miracles and conquest. A central theme of this popular text was Mary's physical pain rather than her disembodied mental distress at the foot of the cross. I argue that the reception of "Quis dabit" in Castile and León was twofold. In his Duelo de la vir…
The Magdalene in the Reformation
In the late sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great fashioned a single, polymorphous character out of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany (Martha's sister who sat listening to Jesus's teachings instead of cooking for him), and the unnamed sinner of the Gospels who used her long locks to clean Jesus's feet with unguent. Medieval thinkers quickly identified the sin of this composite Magdalene as sexual, thus developing a paradoxical figure who was at the…
Her Father's Daughter
Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain
At the Limits of (Trans) Gender
Research Article| May 01 2018 At the Limits of (Trans) Gender: Jesus, Mary, and the Angels in the Visionary Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) Jessica A. Boon Jessica A. Boon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4402227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481−1534
de la Cruz, Juana. Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481−1534: Visionary Sermons. Ed. Jessica A. Boon and Ronald E. Surtz. Intro. and notes Jessica A. Boon. Trans. Ronald E. Surtz and Nora Weinerth. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
Mystical Science of the Soul
A Companion to Ignatius of Loyola
Violence and the “virtual Jew” in Castilian Passion narratives, 1490s–1510s
The late arrival of Passion spirituality to Castile produced the powerful rhetorical image of the violent Jew, just as actual Jews had been expelled or had chosen conversion. Sylvia Tomasch's postcolonial analysis of the "virtual Jew" in late medieval England can aid in examining the violence attributed to Jews in Passion prose narratives newly published in Castilian after 1492. In Prejano's 1493 Lucero de la vida cristiana and Li's 1494 Thesoro …
Transactional Economy in Spanish Mysticism
Between Desire and Passion
The Rosary Cantoral
Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose
Cecilia del Nacimiento. Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose. Eds. and trans. Sandra Sider and Kevin Donnelly. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 18. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xi + 548 pp. $37. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2118–1. - Volume 66 Issue 2
The Mystical Science of the Soul
Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an ‘embodied soul’ for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.
The Bible in the Literary Imagination of the Spanish Golden Age
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Vol. 2, the Passion Narratives
The Agony of the Virgin
The first Castilian Passion treatises presented meditations on the Passion of the son and the mother. In order to understand the implications of a Passion with two main characters, the method is situated in relation to its medieval European precedent of the compassionate, emotional Virgin as well as Iberian Marian devotion. In three Franciscan treatises published in Andalusia (1511-28), the authors began to forefront the physicality of Mary's bod…
A Mystic in the Age of the Inquisition
Trinitarian Love Mysticism
In the early part of the fourteenth century, a parish priest in Brussels came into the possession of a manuscript containing the vernacular letters, visions, and poetry of a woman known only as "beata Hadewijch." The priest prized the manuscript, even recommending it to his fellow conventuals decades later, and included its primary tropes of courtly love mysticism (Minnemystik) as an essential part of many of his writings on the active, interior,…
At the Limits of (Trans) Gender
Research Article| May 01 2018 At the Limits of (Trans) Gender: Jesus, Mary, and the Angels in the Visionary Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) Jessica A. Boon Jessica A. Boon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4402227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Trinitarian Love Mysticism
In the early part of the fourteenth century, a parish priest in Brussels came into the possession of a manuscript containing the vernacular letters, visions, and poetry of a woman known only as "beata Hadewijch." The priest prized the manuscript, even recommending it to his fellow conventuals decades later, and included its primary tropes of courtly love mysticism (Minnemystik) as an essential part of many of his writings on the active, interior,…
Trinitarian Love Mysticism
In the early part of the fourteenth century, a parish priest in Brussels came into the possession of a manuscript containing the vernacular letters, visions, and poetry of a woman known only as "beata Hadewijch." The priest prized the manuscript, even recommending it to his fellow conventuals decades later, and included its primary tropes of courtly love mysticism (Minnemystik) as an essential part of many of his writings on the active, interior,…
A Mystic in the Age of the Inquisition
The Agony of the Virgin
The first Castilian Passion treatises presented meditations on the Passion of the son and the mother. In order to understand the implications of a Passion with two main characters, the method is situated in relation to its medieval European precedent of the compassionate, emotional Virgin as well as Iberian Marian devotion. In three Franciscan treatises published in Andalusia (1511-28), the authors began to forefront the physicality of Mary's bod…
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Vol. 2, the Passion Narratives
The Mystical Science of the Soul
Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an ‘embodied soul’ for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.
The Bible in the Literary Imagination of the Spanish Golden Age
Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose
Cecilia del Nacimiento. Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose. Eds. and trans. Sandra Sider and Kevin Donnelly. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 18. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xi + 548 pp. $37. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2118–1. - Volume 66 Issue 2
Between Desire and Passion
The Rosary Cantoral
Violence and the “virtual Jew” in Castilian Passion narratives, 1490s–1510s
The late arrival of Passion spirituality to Castile produced the powerful rhetorical image of the violent Jew, just as actual Jews had been expelled or had chosen conversion. Sylvia Tomasch's postcolonial analysis of the "virtual Jew" in late medieval England can aid in examining the violence attributed to Jews in Passion prose narratives newly published in Castilian after 1492. In Prejano's 1493 Lucero de la vida cristiana and Li's 1494 Thesoro …
Transactional Economy in Spanish Mysticism
Mystical Science of the Soul
A Companion to Ignatius of Loyola
Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481−1534
de la Cruz, Juana. Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481−1534: Visionary Sermons. Ed. Jessica A. Boon and Ronald E. Surtz. Intro. and notes Jessica A. Boon. Trans. Ronald E. Surtz and Nora Weinerth. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
At the Limits of (Trans) Gender
Research Article| May 01 2018 At the Limits of (Trans) Gender: Jesus, Mary, and the Angels in the Visionary Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) Jessica A. Boon Jessica A. Boon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4402227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Her Father's Daughter
Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain
The Magdalene in the Reformation
In the late sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great fashioned a single, polymorphous character out of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany (Martha's sister who sat listening to Jesus's teachings instead of cooking for him), and the unnamed sinner of the Gospels who used her long locks to clean Jesus's feet with unguent. Medieval thinkers quickly identified the sin of this composite Magdalene as sexual, thus developing a paradoxical figure who was at the…
Mourning and anger at the foot of the cross
The Latin Marian lament "Quis dabit" (literally "Who will give") began circulating in thirteenth-century Castile and León at a time when devotion to the Virgin Mary was principally associated with miracles and conquest. A central theme of this popular text was Mary's physical pain rather than her disembodied mental distress at the foot of the cross. I argue that the reception of "Quis dabit" in Castile and León was twofold. In his Duelo de la vir…
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