Promiscuous grace: imagining beauty and holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
"Theologians, poets, artists, and laypeople alike have been fascinated by Saint Mary of Egypt's legend since it was first recorded in the seventh century. Mary's prominence is religious and symbolic, encompassing sin and sanctity, the excesses of nymphomania and asceticism, the charms...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago London
The University of Chicago Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Class 200: new studies in religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mary of Egypt
/ Art
/ Religious literature
/ Aesthetics
/ Holiness
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion CD Christianity and Culture KCD Hagiography; saints |
| Further subjects: | B
Holiness
B Christian saints in literature B Beauty, Personal Religious aspects Christianity B Christian saints in art B Mary of Egypt, Saint |
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| Summary: | "Theologians, poets, artists, and laypeople alike have been fascinated by Saint Mary of Egypt's legend since it was first recorded in the seventh century. Mary's prominence is religious and symbolic, encompassing sin and sanctity, the excesses of nymphomania and asceticism, the charms of nubile youth and the wrinkles of old age. In Promiscuous Grace, scholar of religion Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about what beauty has to do with holiness. With an archive spanning medieval Spanish poetry, Baroque paintings, a seventeenth-century hagiographic drama, and Balzac's treatment of Saint Mary in Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Velázquez argues for the relevance of the appeal to the senses and the importance of the surface in religious texts. She draws on insights from philosophy, literary history and theory, and religious, visual and gender studies, and pays close attention to the texture of the words and images that make the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt come alive and remain relevant today"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226826082 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226826097.001.0001 |