How Long to Read Excessive Saints

How Long Does it Take to Read Excessive Saints?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Excessive Saints by Rachel J. D. Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day. In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas’s texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person’s life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic. Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how Thomas passionately narrates these lives even as he works through his uncertainties about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present. Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas’s narrative craft in relation to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval Christianity, and medieval women’s history.

How long is Excessive Saints?

Excessive Saints by Rachel J. D. Smith is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Excessive Saints Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Excessive Saints aloud.

What Reading Level is Excessive Saints?

Excessive Saints is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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