Space-time configuration of the medieval female holiness in the “Vida de Santa María Egipciaca”
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https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.2730Keywords:
space, time, female holiness, repentant prostitute, 13th century, hagiographical poetryAbstract
The shape of space and time in the Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, a 13th century Castilian poem, promotes the textual development of the legend of the repentant prostitute through the dynamics of the initial travel of the sinful and her subsequent penitential stay in the desert for more than forty years, giving priority to the description on the narration when the women reaches the holiness. The female holiness of the desert takes form through ecclesiastical authorization and testimony, represented here by Gozimás and the monks of the Abbey of St. John, real models of the possibility of communitiy Christian life in the period.
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