RT Book
T1 Promiscuous grace: imagining beauty and holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
T2 Class 200: new studies in religion
A1 Velázquez, Sonia ca. 20/21. Jh.
LA English
PP Chicago London
PB The University of Chicago Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1819955818
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR1720.M33
SN 9780226826080
SN 9780226826103
K1 Mary : of Egypt, Saint
K1 Christian saints in art
K1 Christian saints in literature
K1 Beauty, Personal : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Holiness
DO 10.7208/chicago/9780226826097.001.0001