'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...
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'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
That tells us medieval people in England were open to models of sanctity that weren"t white, young and obedient. They were open to the otherness of Mary." Mary of Egypt: A Black Saint in Anglo ...