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Frank Graziano is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His previous books include Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War" (1992), The Lust of Seeing: Themes of the Gaze and Sexual Rituals in the Fiction of Felisberto Hernández (1997), and The Millennial New World (Oxford, 1999).
"Wounds of Love provides a superb description and definition of the
components and history of hagiography and female mysticism. [This
book] not only elucidates the events specific to Rose of Lima's
life, but it also clarifies many issues related to the construction
of sanctity and female mysticism. It is vital and welcome addition
on Latin-American colonial women and society." --Renaissance
Quarterly
"It is very difficult not to be impressed by the display of
erudition and the range of problems concerning sanctity that
Graziano treats in this ambitious book. A work such as this is
indispensable...Its exhaustive research in primary and secondary
sources, and the care with which they are duly cited, make this
book an exemplary academic work." --Hispanic American Historical
Review
"Adds important new dimensions to Saint Rose of Lima and her
representations in New World and European Catholic cultures." --The
Americas
"Much more than a biography of a particular saint, Wounds of
Love:The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima is a
well-researched treatment of Catholic mysticism in the early modern
era. It will be of interest to psychology and Latin American
studies collections as well as religious collections."--
Academia
"Among the many riches of this book is the vivid sense it gives of
the encompassing spirituality in which many lived in the Hispanic
world of Rose of Lima's time. In elucidating Rose's behavior and
its reception by commoners, State, and Church, Graziano offers his
reader a cornucopia of learning ranging from the symbolism of
classical times to recent psychology-a cornucopia made doubly
attractive by the suppleness of his thought and litheness of his
prose."
--Peter J. Bakewell, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History,
Southern Methodist University
"It is fascinating to watch how Graziano develops his project with
both a genuine respect for the person and culture of Rose, and a
basic assumption that they were deluded. Those looking for a way
into these perspectives will appreciate this in-depth case
study."--Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union
"Frank Graziano's Wounds of Love is a remarkably complex book, one
that weaves the history of the colonial cultural politics of the
beatification and canonization of America's first saint (Santa Rosa
of Lima), with the larger history of the 'saintly' practices of
women, primarily bodily practices that are simultaneously embraced
and abhorred by society. Drawing upon a diverse body of literature
from various disciplines including Religious Studies,
Medieval History, Psychoanalysis, and Art History, Graziano does
not so much argue from a particular analytic viewpoint or to a
single conclusion, but rather he presents to the reader, through
Saint Rose, the
necessary complicity between the individual and society in the
formation of a saint, and the extreme costs that a successful one
has on those who try to emulate it but fail." --Thomas B.F.
Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian
and Colonial
"Wounds of Love provides a superb description and definition of the
components and history of hagiography and female mysticism. [This
book] not only elucidates the events specific to Rose of Lima's
life, but it also clarifies many issues related to the construction
of sanctity and female mysticism. It is vital and welcome addition
on Latin-American colonial women and society." --Renaissance
Quarterly
"It is very difficult not to be impressed by the display of
erudition and the range of problems concerning sanctity that
Graziano treats in this ambitious book. A work such as this is
indispensable...Its exhaustive research in primary and secondary
sources, and the care with which they are duly cited, make this
book an exemplary academic work." --Hispanic American Historical
Review
"Adds important new dimensions to Saint Rose of Lima and her
representations in New World and European Catholic cultures." --The
Americas
"Much more than a biography of a particular saint, Wounds of
Love:The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima is a
well-researched treatment of Catholic mysticism in the early modern
era. It will be of interest to psychology and Latin American
studies collections as well as religious collections."--
Academia
"Frank Graziano's Wounds of Love is a remarkably complex book, one
that weaves the history of the colonial cultural politics of the
beatification and canonization of America's first saint (Santa Rosa
of Lima), with the larger history of the 'saintly' practices of
women, primarily bodily practices that are simultaneously embraced
and abhorred by society. Drawing upon a diverse body of literature
from various disciplines including Religious Studies,
Medieval History, Psychoanalysis, and Art History, Graziano does
not so much argue from a particular analytic viewpoint or to a
single conclusion, but rather he presents to the reader, through
Saint Rose, the
necessary complicity between the individual and society in the
formation of a saint, and the extreme costs that a successful one
has on those who try to emulate it but fail." --Thomas B.F.
Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian
and Colonial
"It is fascinating to watch how Graziano develops his project with
both a genuine respect for the person and culture of Rose, and a
basic assumption that they were deluded. Those looking for a way
into these perspectives will appreciate this in-depth case
study."--Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union
"Among the many riches of this book is the vivid sense it gives of
the encompassing spirituality in which many lived in the Hispanic
world of Rose of Lima's time. In elucidating Rose's behavior and
its reception by commoners, State, and Church, Graziano offers his
reader a cornucopia of learning ranging from the symbolism of
classical times to recent psychology-a cornucopia made doubly
attractive by the suppleness of his thought and litheness of his
prose."
--Peter J. Bakewell, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History,
Southern Methodist University
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