Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco ..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Peter Cramer -- Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / Frans-Willem Korsten -- History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Ernst van den Hemel -- Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Anselm Haverkamp -- Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / Joke Spaans -- From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Alastair Hamilton -- Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / Madeleine Kasten -- The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Piet de Roy -- Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / Rokus de Groot -- The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Peter Raedts -- Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Irene Zwiep -- Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Leen Spruit -- Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Willemien Otten -- Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / Asja Szafraniec -- On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Paola Marrati -- Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Hent de Vries -- Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / Giselle de Nie -- The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Bram Kempers -- Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / Bernard McGinn -- De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / Marcia L. Colish -- The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Babette Hellemans -- Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Ineke van 't Spijker -- Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / Arjo Vanderjagt -- The monastic challenge : remarks / Helmut Kohlenberger.

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