Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195136401
- eISBN:
- 9780199835164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195136403.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Discusses the wound in Christ’s side as a breast where nourishment and eroticism interact dynamically, including examples from the lives of Catherine of Siena, Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi, Angela of ...
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Discusses the wound in Christ’s side as a breast where nourishment and eroticism interact dynamically, including examples from the lives of Catherine of Siena, Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi, Angela of Foligno, and Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, in addition to Rose of Lima. Flames of passion and wounds of love are then analyzed, including Teresa of Avila’s transverberation and the Mercedes graphics produced by Rose of Lima. The chapter concludes with an analysis of mystical marriage, in Rose’s life and generally, as a symbolic complex in which varied strategies of uniting with Christ–inedia, eucharistic devotion, erotic agony, unitive identification, and heart exchange, among others–are integrated into a comprehensive agenda.Less
Discusses the wound in Christ’s side as a breast where nourishment and eroticism interact dynamically, including examples from the lives of Catherine of Siena, Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi, Angela of Foligno, and Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, in addition to Rose of Lima. Flames of passion and wounds of love are then analyzed, including Teresa of Avila’s transverberation and the Mercedes graphics produced by Rose of Lima. The chapter concludes with an analysis of mystical marriage, in Rose’s life and generally, as a symbolic complex in which varied strategies of uniting with Christ–inedia, eucharistic devotion, erotic agony, unitive identification, and heart exchange, among others–are integrated into a comprehensive agenda.
Emily Corran
Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781526148902
- eISBN:
- 9781526166456
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526148919.00010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter concerns the intersection of two aspects of Western medieval Christian religion that have previously been considered in isolation. The first is ascetic control of the self, and in ...
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This chapter concerns the intersection of two aspects of Western medieval Christian religion that have previously been considered in isolation. The first is ascetic control of the self, and in particular, the voluntary vows made by secular people, for example, to fast, to abstain from marital relations or to go on pilgrimage. Vows of personal conduct (as I shall call these non-institutional vows), and voluntary physical abstinence more generally, have been of considerable interest to scholars of medieval sanctity and the body. In addition, the thirteenth century was a period in which laypeople came together to live quasi-monastic lives. The second aspect of medieval culture under consideration is casuistry. Here this is a term for the legalistic ethics that was taught to Catholic priests in the late medieval and early modern period. It first emerged in practical theology and canon law taught in the universities of Paris and Bologna around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and was subsequently popularised in manuals for priests from the mid-thirteenth century. This kind of thought was chiefly concerned with resolving moral cases and practical dilemmas.Less
This chapter concerns the intersection of two aspects of Western medieval Christian religion that have previously been considered in isolation. The first is ascetic control of the self, and in particular, the voluntary vows made by secular people, for example, to fast, to abstain from marital relations or to go on pilgrimage. Vows of personal conduct (as I shall call these non-institutional vows), and voluntary physical abstinence more generally, have been of considerable interest to scholars of medieval sanctity and the body. In addition, the thirteenth century was a period in which laypeople came together to live quasi-monastic lives. The second aspect of medieval culture under consideration is casuistry. Here this is a term for the legalistic ethics that was taught to Catholic priests in the late medieval and early modern period. It first emerged in practical theology and canon law taught in the universities of Paris and Bologna around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and was subsequently popularised in manuals for priests from the mid-thirteenth century. This kind of thought was chiefly concerned with resolving moral cases and practical dilemmas.
