 | The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography Virginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "counter-eroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition. Virginia Burrus is Professor of Early Church History at Drew University and the author of Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
