----- Original Message ----- From: Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net
screen. As I have pointed out, this is akin to admiring the courage of Oedipus in pressing to learn a truth he has been told will destroy him in a classic play; the tears of Mary holding Jesus in the statue Pieta; or any art that makes us admire how the human spirit can bear up abainst pain.
Actually, there's been a lot written about the erotic aspects of depictions of the sufferings of Jesus in medieval art. While writing a paper on women in Renaissance England, I once read *The Boke of Margery Kempe* and the erotic imagery in her visions of the Passion is so palpable it's occasionally a bit frightening.
Fiona
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