04221nam 2200721 a 450 991078188150332120200520144314.01-283-21119-X97866132111940-8122-0072-110.9783/9780812200720(CKB)2550000000051252(OCoLC)759158154(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491858(SSID)ssj0000649677(PQKBManifestationID)11380971(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649677(PQKBWorkID)10608560(PQKB)11065701(MdBmJHUP)muse3176(DE-B1597)448924(OCoLC)979579881(DE-B1597)9780812200720(Au-PeEL)EBL3441401(CaPaEBR)ebr10491858(CaONFJC)MIL321119(OCoLC)842967364(MiAaPQ)EBC3441401(EXLCZ)99255000000005125220030523d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe sex lives of saints[electronic resource] an erotics of ancient hagiography /Virginia BurrusPhiladelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Pressc20041 online resource (223 p.) Divinations : rereading late ancient religionFirst paperback edition 2008.0-8122-2020-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Hagiography and the History of Sexuality -- Chapter 1. Fancying Hermits: Sublimation and the Arts of Romance -- Chapter 2. Dying for a Life: Martyrdom, Masochism, and Female (Auto)Biography -- Chapter 3. Hybrid Desire: Empire, Sadism, and the Soldier Saint -- Chapter 4. Secrets of Seduction: The Lives of Holy Harlots -- Postscript (Catching My Breath) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- AcknowledgmentsHas 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.Divinations.SexReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesChristian hagiographyHistoryTo 1500Ancient Studies.Gender Studies.Religion.Religious Studies.Women's Studies.SexReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrines.Christian hagiographyHistory261.8/357Burrus Virginia729834MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781881503321The sex lives of saints3852552UNINA01475nam0 22003253i 450 CFI000194420251003044106.0881315459320130827d1983 ||||0itac50 baitaitz01i xxxe z01nAspetti civilistici della sperimentazione umanaAlessandra BellelliPadovaCEDAM1983VII, 173 p.25 cm.Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di diritto privato dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza26001CFI00019512001 Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di diritto privato dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza2671201Universita degli studi di Roma La Sapienza : Istituto di diritto privatoRMSV422174MediciResponsabilitàFIRCFIC006244EPersona <diritto>FIRCFIC024039I344.4504196DIRITTO IN MATERIA DI SPECIFICI PROBLEMI DI PRASSI MEDICA. SPERIMENTAZIONE SU ESSERI UMANI. ITALIA21Bellelli, AlessandraCFIV001447070232964ITIT-00000020130827IT-BN0095 NAP 01D $CFI0001944Biblioteca Centralizzata di Ateneo1 v. 01D (AR) 9 422 01AR 0070094225 VMA 1 v.Y 2016021820160218 01Aspetti civilistici della sperimentazione umana61613UNISANNIO