Abstract

JUAREZ, Esteban Luciano. Medieval body and Holiness. The female corporality in The Golden Legend. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.1, pp.47-70.  Epub Aug 22, 2023. ISSN 1851-8753.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.024.

This article aims to investigate the representation of female sanctity in The Golden Legend, by Jacobus of Voragine, in relation to the body and its attributes. Far from being a secondary or degraded component in opposition with the soul, corporeality in general, and the feminine in particular, it is configured as a place of religious resistance and, simultaneously, as the element which allows transcendence in spiritual terms. In this way, the centrality of the body leads to a privileged treatment of materiality and enables a series of protections aimed at its preservation. Here, this multiple and diverse mechanism will be called covering.

Keywords : The Golden Legend; Holiness; Female Corporality; Martyrdom.

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