Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Autor Sonia Velázquezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2023
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226826103
ISBN-10: 0226826104
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Class 200: New Studies in Religion
ISBN-10: 0226826104
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Notă biografică
Sonia Velázquez is assistant professor of religious studies and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington. She is coeditor of Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed.
Cuprins
List of Figures
On Translations and Spelling
In a Chapel: An Invitation to Imagine
1 Image Theory according to Saint Mary of Egypt
2 The Seductions of Hagiography
3 The Shoes of the Sinner and the Skin of the Saint
4 Neither Venus nor Venerable Old Men
5 Appearances Are Everything
Epilogue: In the Artist’s Studio
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
On Translations and Spelling
In a Chapel: An Invitation to Imagine
1 Image Theory according to Saint Mary of Egypt
2 The Seductions of Hagiography
3 The Shoes of the Sinner and the Skin of the Saint
4 Neither Venus nor Venerable Old Men
5 Appearances Are Everything
Epilogue: In the Artist’s Studio
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"Holding the paradox of the sensual saint delicately, Velázquez engages artifacts representing and interpreting Mary’s life to unfold the way her promiscuity becomes an image of grace, illustrating how grace itself has a promiscuous character, like a beautiful body freely given. . . . In her detailed research and elegant prose, she shows us the textured reflection that is possible when we resist assimilating Mary of Egypt to well-worn paradigms of womanly beauty and learn instead to appreciate, through artifacts about her life, the interrelatedness of beauty and holiness, the theological and the aesthetic, unmerited favor and promiscuous grace. Promiscuous Grace is a book that handsomely rewards the reader for attention paid—or freely given."
"Velázquez skillfully weaves together her analysis of an anonymous thirteenth-century poem (Vida de Santa María Egipciaca), the artwork depicting Mary of Egypt created by the seventeenth-century
painter Jusepe de Ribera, and Juan Pérez de Montalbán’s play, La gitana de Menfis also from the seventeenth-century. What results is an expansive interdisciplinary study of this late-ancient text, its receptions, and inspirations, as well as the articulation of nuanced theories of religion, beauty, and holiness. Notably, Velázquez also articulates an image theory—one that suggests the story of Mary’s conversion in her Life intimates the power of images as a site of contemplation—is exhibited through the very images (literary and otherwise) of the desert saint herself."
painter Jusepe de Ribera, and Juan Pérez de Montalbán’s play, La gitana de Menfis also from the seventeenth-century. What results is an expansive interdisciplinary study of this late-ancient text, its receptions, and inspirations, as well as the articulation of nuanced theories of religion, beauty, and holiness. Notably, Velázquez also articulates an image theory—one that suggests the story of Mary’s conversion in her Life intimates the power of images as a site of contemplation—is exhibited through the very images (literary and otherwise) of the desert saint herself."
"Velázquez’s illuminating study of early modern representations of St. Mary of Egypt in Promiscuous Grace convincingly demonstrates the subversive potential of this underexamined figure whose life, the artists who depicted her understood, overturns the traditional Christian hierarchy subordinating the material to the spiritual and, by extension, women to men. . . . an essential intervention in ongoing examinations of the tension between material and spiritual, body and soul, earth and heaven, in religious art and literature."
"This remarkable and well-written book . . . is both chronologically expansive and laser-focused. Moreover, throughout Promiscuous Grace, Velázquez creatively weaves insights from historical sources and critical intertexts from the fields of Art History, Religious Studies, patristic and feminist theology, literary and drama theory and aesthetics into her interpretations. Consequently, Promiscuous Grace will doubtless appeal to a wide audience and serve as a model for comparatists."
“In this luminous, revelatory, and sensitive book, at once wide-ranging and full of hidden depths, Velázquez lovingly follows the afterlives of Saint Mary of Egypt across words and images as well as spaces, places, and stages from Egypt to Spain. Velázquez’s beautiful prose and gorgeous readings express a deep care for her subject, leading us on a journey that touches the soul as well as the mind.”
“In this superbly crafted meditation on religion and materiality, Velázquez interweaves the poems, art, and drama dedicated to Mary of Egypt in premodern Spanish Catholicism and its contemporary traces elsewhere. Her work on the creativity inspired by this saint evocatively reimagines the philosophical concept of beauty around the aging, holy female body and the Christian concept of grace around the profane. While grounded in thirteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain, this study fruitfully reimagines the peninsular Mary of Egypt as ‘good to think with’ for historians of European Christianity, art, and theater more broadly.”
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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.