The Legends Of The Holy Harlots
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The Legends Of The Holy Harlots
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Author : Andrew M. Beresford
language : en
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Release Date : 2007
The Legends Of The Holy Harlots written by Andrew M. Beresford and has been published by Tamesis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
An introduction to the legends of Saints Thaïs and Pelagia, together with critical editions of the five Castilian redactions. The legends of the holy harlots, Thaïs and Pelagia, are two of the most controversial accounts of female sanctity to have circulated in Spain during the Middle Ages. In this book, which reviews the origin and development of theircults, the author reconsiders the relationships that have traditionally been thought to exist between them and three of the other so-called prostitute saints: Mary Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Mary the niece of Abraham. This is accompanied by an evaluation of the five Castilian versions of the two legends and their Latin sources, followed by a reading of their thematic and structural significance, with particular emphasis paid to the ways in which the twowomen renounce their sins and embark on the slow and agonizing path of redemption. The book is completed by critical editions of the five Castilian versions. ANDREW M. BERESFORD lectures in Spanish at the University of Durham.
Holy Harlots In Medieval English Religious Literature
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Author : Juliette Vuille
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021-04-16
Holy Harlots In Medieval English Religious Literature written by Juliette Vuille and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-16 with Literary Collections categories.
First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.
Harlot Or Holy Woman
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Author : Phyllis A. Bird
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2020-01-16
Harlot Or Holy Woman written by Phyllis A. Bird and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with Religion categories.
Harlot or Holy Woman? presents an exhaustive study of qedešah, a Hebrew word meaning “consecrated woman” but rendered “prostitute” or “sacred prostitute” in Bible translations. Reexamining biblical and extrabiblical texts, Phyllis A. Bird questions how qedešah came to be associated with prostitution and offers an alternative explanation of the term, one that suggests a wider participation for women as religious specialists in Israel’s early cultic practice. Bird’s study reviews all the texts from classical antiquity cited as sources for an institution of “sacred prostitution,” alongside a comprehensive analysis of the cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia containing the cognate qadištu and Ugaritic texts containing the masculine cognate qdš. Through these texts, Bird presents a portrait of women dedicated to a deity, engaged in a variety of activities from cultic ritual to wet-nursing, and sharing a common generic name with the qedešah of ancient Israel. In the final chapter she returns to biblical texts, reexamining them in light of the new evidence from the ancient Near East. Considering alternative models for constructing women’s religious roles in ancient Israel, this wholly original study offers new interpretations of key texts and raises questions about the nature of Israelite religion as practiced outside the royal cult and central sanctuary.
Gender And Exemplarity In Medieval And Early Modern Spain
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-09-07
Gender And Exemplarity In Medieval And Early Modern Spain written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-07 with History categories.
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.
From Shame To Sin
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Author : Kyle Harper
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-01
From Shame To Sin written by Kyle Harper and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with History categories.
The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Christ Mary And The Saints
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-12-10
Christ Mary And The Saints written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-10 with History categories.
Christ, Mary, and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain offers an innovative, theoretically nuanced contribution to the study of devotional subjects in medieval and Golden Age Iberian art and literature.
Mary Magdalene In Medieval Culture
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Author : Peter Loewen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-26
Mary Magdalene In Medieval Culture written by Peter Loewen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene’s many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ to "apostle to the apostles" to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, literature, theology, hagiography, and the historical record. Furthermore, Mary Magdalene has grown into an extremely popular and controversial figure due to recent books and movies concerning her, and due to a groundswell of general speculation concerning her relationship to Jesus: was she his acquaintance, follower, companion, wife, family-member, or lover? This volume employs a broad spectrum of theoretical methodologies in order to present poststructuralist, postcolonial, postmodernist, hagiographic, and feminist readings of the figure of Mary Magdalene, addressing and interrogating her conflicting roles and the precise relationship between her sacred and secular representations.
Promiscuous Grace
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Author : Sonia Velázquez
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-05-19
Promiscuous Grace written by Sonia Velázquez and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-19 with Religion categories.
A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt. Saint Mary of Egypt has fascinated theologians, poets, and artists since the seventh century. Her story is richly evocative, encompassing sin and sanctity, concupiscence and asceticism, youth and old age. In Promiscuous Grace, Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about the relationship between beauty and holiness. Drawing on an archive spanning Spanish medieval poetry, Baroque paintings, seventeenth-century hagiography, and Balzac’s Le chef-d’œuvre inconnu, Velázquez argues for the importance of the senses on the surface of religious texts on her way to revealing why the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt still matters today.
A Companion To Spanish Women S Studies
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Author : Xon de Ros
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2014
A Companion To Spanish Women S Studies written by Xon de Ros and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
This volume presents an overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of women's studies, including original essays by pioneering scholars as well as by younger specialists. New pathfinding models of theoretical analysis are balanced with a careful revisiting of the historical foundations of women's studies.
Medieval Hispanic Studies In Memory Of Alan Deyermond
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Author : Andrew M. Beresford
language : en
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Release Date : 2013
Medieval Hispanic Studies In Memory Of Alan Deyermond written by Andrew M. Beresford and has been published by Tamesis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
"Professor Alan Deyermond was one of the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the world ... Given Professor Deyermond's breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide, ranging chronologically from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies"--P. [4] of cover.