Title: Afterlives of the saints : stories from the ends of faith /
Authors: Dickey, Colin.
Publisher: Unbridled Books,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Christian saints Biography Miscellanea.
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: The singer at the end of the world: Gregory of Tours -- The librarian's dream: Jerome -- Silencing the books: Paula -- Of lament: Radegund -- Quixote's madness: Teresa of Avila -- Trickster laughs: Lawrence of the gridirons -- Anatomical annihilations: Bartholomew -- The inscrutable look: Magdalen -- The mother of pornography: Agatha -- Unbidden desires, unquiet secrets: Sebastian -- A multitude of demons and a solitary vice: Anthony -- Legends of sudden explosions: Barbara -- Violent jokes and stolen bones: Foy -- The monstrous saint: George -- In the darkest nights of the year: Lucy -- The consolations of castration: Origen -- At the well of tears: Margery Kempe.