Promiscuous Grace : Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt Hardback
by Sonia Velazquez
Part of the Class 200: New Studies in Religion series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 15 halftones
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:22/05/2023
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- ISBN:9780226826080
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 15 halftones
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:22/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226826080
