{"title":"Le corps terrestre et le corps céleste de la sainte travestie : La Vie de Sainte Marine (XIIIe siècle)","authors":"LETICIA DING","doi":"10.47743/aic-2023-1-0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Medieval hagiographic legends are rich in lives of transvestite saints. The question of the body is central insofar as its gender is hi - dden. The case of the life of St. Marina presents a particularity since the young girl does not choose to assume a man’s habit, it is her father who disguises her when she is still young in order to take her with him to the monastery. She then led a chaste life under a monk’s habit, but she was falsely accused of seduction and of getting a woman pregnant. St. Marina did not seek to reveal her true identity in order to be cleared of these accusations, but agreed to do penance. The punishment she undergoes places her on the fringes of society and mistreats her body. This terrestrial body, damaged by physical needs, is sublimated when it becomes celestial, that is when the saint joins the kingdom of heaven. A dialogue is established between the terrestrial body and the celestial body, between the flesh and the soul, with the aim of edifying Christians to learn to see beyond appearances. Les légendes hagiographiques médiévales sont riches en vies de saintes travesties. La question du corps est centrale dans la mesure où son genre est caché. Le cas de la vie de sainte Marine présente une particularité puisque la jeune fille ne choisit pas de prendre l’habit d’homme, c’est son père qui la déguise lorsqu’elle est encore en bas âge pour l’emmener avec lui au monastère. Elle va alors mener une vie chaste sous l’habit de moine, mais elle va être victime d’une fausse accusation de séduction et d’avoir mis une femme enceinte. Sainte Marine ne cherche pas à dévoiler sa vraie identité pour être innocentée de ces accusations, elle accepte de faire pénitence. Le châtiment qu’elle subit la place en marge de","PeriodicalId":30923,"journal":{"name":"Acta Iassyensia Comparationis","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta Iassyensia Comparationis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47743/aic-2023-1-0002","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Medieval hagiographic legends are rich in lives of transvestite saints. The question of the body is central insofar as its gender is hi - dden. The case of the life of St. Marina presents a particularity since the young girl does not choose to assume a man’s habit, it is her father who disguises her when she is still young in order to take her with him to the monastery. She then led a chaste life under a monk’s habit, but she was falsely accused of seduction and of getting a woman pregnant. St. Marina did not seek to reveal her true identity in order to be cleared of these accusations, but agreed to do penance. The punishment she undergoes places her on the fringes of society and mistreats her body. This terrestrial body, damaged by physical needs, is sublimated when it becomes celestial, that is when the saint joins the kingdom of heaven. A dialogue is established between the terrestrial body and the celestial body, between the flesh and the soul, with the aim of edifying Christians to learn to see beyond appearances. Les légendes hagiographiques médiévales sont riches en vies de saintes travesties. La question du corps est centrale dans la mesure où son genre est caché. Le cas de la vie de sainte Marine présente une particularité puisque la jeune fille ne choisit pas de prendre l’habit d’homme, c’est son père qui la déguise lorsqu’elle est encore en bas âge pour l’emmener avec lui au monastère. Elle va alors mener une vie chaste sous l’habit de moine, mais elle va être victime d’une fausse accusation de séduction et d’avoir mis une femme enceinte. Sainte Marine ne cherche pas à dévoiler sa vraie identité pour être innocentée de ces accusations, elle accepte de faire pénitence. Le châtiment qu’elle subit la place en marge de