Sacred Eroticism, Rapturous Anguish: Christianity's Penitent Prostitutes and the Vexation of Allegory, 1370-1608
- Author / Editor
- King, Laura Severt.
Sacred Eroticism, Rapturous Anguish: Christianity's Penitent Prostitutes and the Vexation of Allegory, 1370-1608
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 3757A.
- Description
- Among the handful of converted whores, Mary Magdalene is best known in late medieval writing through the homily "De maria Magdalena" (which Chaucer translated) and the Digby play. These works reveal remarkably literal physicality in which carnal desire appears to merge with spiritual, as reflected in BD, LGW, Pity, and ShT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Complaint unto Pity.
- Shipman and His Tale.