Artikel
Knockin' on heaven's door : sexual renunciation, eschatology, and liminality in Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses
Verfasst von:
Gulley, Alison
in:
The journal of English and Germanic philology
Champaign:
2018
,
141-159 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Gulley, Alison |
| In: | The journal of English and Germanic philology |
| Jahr: | 2018 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| Significantly, the paradox of virginity within marriage is just one of the many that can be found in hagiography, the central one being that stories grounded in the physicality of saints—with their bodies the locus of abnegation and often the site of torture, thereby focusing audience attention on the carnal—are at heart really about the spiritual. The subjects of hagiography are situated at the nexus of body and soul and, as in these examples, on the threshold between earth and heaven. The Virgin Mary is a prime example: she is dead but alive, in heaven but on earth, and, most relevant in these vitae of Virgin Spouses, a figure who is at once mother and wife and yet a virgin. | |
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