The Sex Lives of Saints
Subtitle: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812237450
Subjects: Saints & hagiography; Religion; History; History - General History; To 1500; Religious aspects; Ancient - General; Christianity; Christian hagiography; History of doctrines; Sex
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).