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CARDAILLAC, Louis. Erotismo y santidad. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2012, n.3. ISSN 2007-4964.

In this article the relations between eroticism and sanctity are studied, in a long period which goes from the Middle Ages to the Second Vatican Council. It tries to relate images depicted in the history of art, essentially from the Renaissance and the Golden Age. It had to chose and privilege some issues such as the lactation of the Virgin, repeated in countless times in the paint and the mystical relations with eroticism. It also shows how the vision of the body was a constant problem in the history of religious thought and how the biblical texts had influence on it. Besides, it analyzed the official doctrine of the Catholic Church for the presence of eroticism in the lifes of couples and their historical deviations, trying to specify the slow evolution in the Church’s thinking on sexuality.

Palabras llave : European medieval holiness; eroticism and mysticism; sexuality; religious painting; lactation’s virgins.

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