Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of FaithUnbridled Books, 2012 - 236 pagine Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth" -- each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint. |
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The Earths Rejects 3 | |
The Labyrinth of the Word | |
Scene from the Apocalypse The Opening of the Fifth | |
Gregory of Tours 23 | |
Jerome 33 | |
Saint Jerome Writing c 1604 Michelangelo Merisi | |
Paula 43 | |
Radegund 55 | |
An Indelicate Eros | |
Agatha 115 | |
Sebastian 125 | |
Anthony 133 | |
Demons of Belief | |
Barbara 163 | |
Foy 179 | |
George 189 | |
Teresa of Avila 69 | |
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa 16471652 Giovanni | |
Visions of Torture and Longing | |
Lawrence of the Gridirons 79 | |
Bartholomew 85 | |
Flayed Man Holding a Dagger and His Skin from Juan Val | |
Magdalen 99 | |
Lucy 199 | |
The Uncanonized | |
Origen 213 | |
Margery Kempe 223 | |
Notes on Sources 233 | |
Acknowledgments 237 | |
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