Sex Lives of Saints An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography

Name: Sex Lives of Saints An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
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ISBN: 9780812220209

ISBN-10: 081222020X

ISBN-13: 9780812220209

Edition: 2004

Authors: Virginia Burrus

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Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition. Without reducing the erotics of ancient hagiography to a single formula,The Sex Lives of Saintsframes the broad historical, theological, and theoretical…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction: Hagiography and the History of Sexuality



Fancying Hermits: Sublimation And The Arts Of Romance


The Queer Life of Paul the Hermit


The Queer Marriage of Malchus the Monk


Hilarion's Last Laugh


Prolongations: Fantasies of a Faun


Reading (as) Another, Woman



Dying For A Life: Martyrdom, Masochism, And Female (Auto)Biography


Praising Paula


Remembering Macrina


Confessing Monica


Testimony to (Woman's) Survival


Fragments of an Autobiography



Hybrid Desire: Empire, Sadism, And The Soldier Saint


Domination and Submission in the Life of Martin


Sulpicius's Passion


The Hagiographer, the Ethnographer, and the Native


Witnessing Ambivalence



Secrets Of Seduction: The Lives Of Holy Harlots


The Lamb, the Wolf, and the Fool: Mary, Niece of Abraham


Seduction of the Eye: Pelagia of Antioch


Sacrifice in the Desert: Mary of Egypt


The Joy of Harlotry


Postscript (Catching My Breath)


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgments