PrefacePublications of Burcht Pranger ContributorsPart 1: Literary Imagination1. "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco.": Notes on a Sonnet of Petrarch, Peter Cramer 2. Moments of Indecision, Sovereign Possibilities: Notes on the Tableau Vivant , Frans-Willem Korsten 3. History and the Vertical Canon: Calvin's Institutes and Beckett, Ernst van den Hemel 4. Christ's Case and John Donne, "Seeing through his wounds": The Stigma of Martyrdom Transfigured, Anselm Haverkamp 5. Playing with History: The Satirical Portrayal of the Medieval Papacy on an Eighteenth-Century Deck of Playing Cards, Joke Spaans 6. From East to West: Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy, Alastair Hamilton 7.
Labouring in Reason's Vineyard: Voltaire and the Allegory of Enlightenment, Madeleine Kasten Part 2: The Canon8. The Search for the Canon and the Problem of Body and Soul, Piet de Rooy 9. Music at the Limits: Edward Said's Musical Elaborations, Rokus de Groot 10. The Canonisation of the Medieval Past: England and the Continent Compared, Peter Raedts 11. Scholarship of Literature and Life: Leopold Zunz and the Invention of Jewish Culture, Irene Zwiep 12. Censorship and Canon: A Note on Some Medieval Works and Authors, Leen Spruit 13. Does the Canon Need Converting? A Meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies , Eriugena's Periphyseon , and the Dialogue with the Religious Past, Willemien Otten 14. Between Pedagogy and Democracy: On Canons and Aversion to Conformity in Ordinary Language Philosophy, Asja Szafraniec 15.
On the Significance of Disagreement: Stanley Cavell and Ordinary Language Philosophy, Paola Marrati 16. Fast Forward, or: The Theologico-Political Event in Quick Motion (Miracles, Media, and Multitudes in St. Augustine), Hent de Vries Part 3: The Christian Middle Ages17. Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'Touching' the Numinous, Giselle de Nie 18. The Fame of Fake, Dionysius the Areopagite: Fabrication, Falsification and the 'Cloud of Unknowing', Bram Kempers 19. Two Female Apostolic Mystics: Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon, Bernard McGinn 20. De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the Canonization of Ambrose of Milan on Baptism by Desire, Marciaa L. Colish 21.
The 'Whole Abelard' and the Availability of Language, Babette Hellemans 22. Tempus longum . locus asper . : Chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint-Victor, Ineke van 't Spijker 23. Obedience Simple and True: Anselm of Canterbury on How to Defeat the Devil, Arjo vanderjagt 24. The Monastic Challenge: Remarks, Helmut Kohlenberger Index of Personal Names.