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035 _a(DE-B1597)448924
035 _a(OCoLC)979579881
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBurrus, Virginia
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Sex Lives of Saints :
_bAn Erotics of Ancient Hagiography /
_cVirginia Burrus.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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490 0 _aDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Hagiography and the History of Sexuality --
_tChapter 1. Fancying Hermits: Sublimation and the Arts of Romance --
_tChapter 2. Dying for a Life: Martyrdom, Masochism, and Female (Auto)Biography --
_tChapter 3. Hybrid Desire: Empire, Sadism, and the Soldier Saint --
_tChapter 4. Secrets of Seduction: The Lives of Holy Harlots --
_tPostscript (Catching My Breath) --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHas 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 Saints frames the broad historical, theological, and theoretical issues at stake in such a revisionist interpretation of ascetic eroticism, with particular reference to the work of Michel Foucault and Georges Bataille, David Halperin and Geoffrey Harpham, Leo Bersani and Jean Baudrillard. Burrus subsequently proceeds through close, performative readings of the earliest Lives of Saints, mostly dating to the late fourth and early fifth centuries-Jerome's Lives of Paul, Malchus, Hilarion, and Paula; Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina; Augustine's portrait of Monica; Sulpicius Severus's Life of Martin; and the slightly later Lives of so-called harlot saints. Queer, s/m, and postcolonial theories are among the contemporary discourses that prove intriguingly resonant with an ancient art of "saintly" loving that remains, in Burrus's reading, promisingly mobile, diverse, and open-ended.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aChristian hagiography
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aSex
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity
_xHistory of doctrines.
650 4 _aReligious Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / General.
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653 _aAncient Studies.
653 _aGender Studies.
653 _aReligion.
653 _aReligious Studies.
653 _aWomen's Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200720
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812200720
856 4 2 _3Cover
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