The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
Virginia BurrusVirginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "counter-eroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.
Virginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "counter-eroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.
Jahr:
2010
Verlag:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
224
ISBN 10:
0812200721
ISBN 13:
9780812200720
Datei:
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english, 2010