Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Colloquium Series: Daniel Price
The Christian tradition of water as a vehicle for divine power
Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Colloquium Series
God Hovering Over the Waters: Extended Corporeality in the Holy Tears of Genoveve of Paris
Daniel Price, STM, CMRS Fellow
When: Thursday, March 16
Reception at 4:00 p.m.
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Where: St Thomas More College, Room 200
Water has held a prominent place in the Christian imagination from its earliest days. The sixth-century life of Genoveve of Paris produces a specifically female model of sanctity that relies on a tradition associating femininity with water and water with sanctity. Not only does Genoveve possess the gift of tears, the gratia lacrimarum, but she in many cases uses the water of her tears to perform her miracles. Genoveve's hagiographer leverages the liminality of her body – do her tears remain a part of her once they have been shed? – and the Christian tradition of regarding water as a vehicle of divine power to establish Genoveve and her body as a fluid and potent focus of sanctity.
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