The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: October 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812220209
Subjects: History of religion; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; History: World; Ancient - General; History; History / Ancient / General; Religion : History; Christianity - History - General
First sentence: "How often, when I was living in the desert, in the vast solitude which gives to hermits a savage dwelling-place, parched by the flames of the sun, how often did I fancy myself among the pleasures of Rome (putavi me Romanis interesse deliciis)!" (Ep. 22.7).