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Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
University of Chicago Press, 2023 Cloth: 978-0-226-82608-0 | Paper: 978-0-226-82610-3 | eISBN: 978-0-226-82609-7 Library of Congress Classification BR1720.M33V45 2023 Dewey Decimal Classification 226
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Beauty, Personal | Egypt | Holiness | Literature & the Arts | Sexuality & Gender Studies See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Chicago Press, 2023
Cloth: 978-0-226-82608-0
Paper: 978-0-226-82610-3
eISBN: 978-0-226-82609-7
Cloth: 978-0-226-82608-0
Paper: 978-0-226-82610-3
eISBN: 978-0-226-82609-7
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.
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
