Review of Alessandra Bucossi – Luigi D’Amelia (eds), Nicetae Thessalonicensis dialogi sex de processione spiritus sancti (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 92). Turnhout: Brepols 2021. (original) (raw)

"The Female Body, Sexuality and Baptism in Medieval Iberia.”

2006

CONTENT OF THESIS Abbreviations 3 List of Illustrations 4 Chart 1: Pictorial Programs Introduction 8 Previous Scholarship 11 CHAPTER ONE : HISTORICAL CONTEXT Dates and Provenance 14 The Changing Parameters of Iberian Society 19 Castilian Monasteries and the Episcopal Seat of Burgos 21 CHAPTER TWO : PEDAGOGICAL COERCION The Season of Lent 24 The Month of March and Thorns of Sexual Vices 29 The Pictorial Programs 33 CHAPTER THREE : THE THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT The Female Body of Christ 37 The Vulva Matris 46 CHAPTER FOUR : FEMALE IDENTITIES Female Deception, Luxuria and Original Sin 52 The Alcahueta and Medieval Go-Betweens 58 Female Genitalia, Prostitutes and Troubadours 68 The Female “Fovea” and Baptism 77 Sirens, Female Seducers and Male Sexuality 82 Conclusion 88 Illustrations 91 Bibliography 130

Conference Panel "Women in Early Christianity", International Annual Meeting on Christian Origins, Bertinoro 15-17 September 2022

WOMEN IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY Presiding: Maria Dell’Isola & Mario Resta BARBARA CROSTINI (Newman Institute, Uppsala) Women-with-Child on Show: Painting Motherhood from Dura to Luke MARIANNA CERNO (University of Udine) Dreams and Virtues of the «Women of Clement». Matthidia and Procula in the Light of a Newly Recovered Pseudo-Clementine Fragment TOMMASO INTERI (University of Turin) Womanhood as Exegetical Paradigm in Eusebius ALESSANDRO DE BLASI (University of Padua) (Im)pious Sisterhood. Once More on Greg. Naz. carm. II 1, 41, Contra Maximum