#benedetta carlini

[warningsine]

#Paul Verhoeven #benedetta #Virginie Efira #Daphné Patakia #Benedetta Carlini #Bartolomea #// #sine's edits

[lamiaprigione]

Benedetta (2021)

#film #movie #benedetta #benedetta carlini #suora #nun #Verhoeven #Judith C. Brown #Jeanne Lapoirie #Virginie Efira #Charlotte Rampling #Daphné Patakia

[cupsofsilver]

Mother Superior Benedetta Carlini, an Italian Catholic nun accused of being a heretic and of having sexual relations with another woman in her convent, Sister Bartolomea Crivelli, ALSO fucking received the stigmata.

Lesbians are just closer to god than the rest of us, I guess.

#stigmata #Mother Superior Benedetta Carlini #nun #catholic women #catholic nuns #Benedetta carlini #history #religious history

[fangmouthpriestess]

immodest acts: the life of a lesbian nun in renaissance italy, judith c. brown

#benedetta carlini #op: maranatha

[juniperusashei]

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown - 4/5

Having read Saint Hildegard of Bingen (12th century), the disparity in reactions to female mystics pre- and post-plague is striking (not to mention non-nuns, like Jeanne d’Arc and Margery Kempe in the 14th and 15th centuries.) Benedetta Carlini lived from 1590 to 1661, truly in the Renaissance, so though a lot of her experiences are common with Saint Hildegard, instead of being the Oprah of her day she was scrutinized and discredited (ultimately, never reaching sainthood.) Something Paul Verhoeven’s film holds in common with Immodest Acts is that it maintains that, whether or not Benedetta’s miracles were fabricated, she was a very devout nun. She faked her stigmata wounds, but at the same time, what could compel someone to such extreme self-infliction save for religious frenzy? So ironically, religious lobbyists picketing the film Benedetta has an eerie similarity to what Benedetta herself went through at the hands of the Catholic church: a counter-reformation spirit of quashing mysticism in favor of bureaucracy and order.

The subtitle The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy is interesting because in the grand scheme of things, the lesbian part of this book is not a focus (unlike the film). The highlight of this book though, was actually its introduction, not any of the biographical information. In the introduction, Brown very concisely explains the medieval and renaissance attitudes towards homosexuality: it was seen as more of a sin than rape or pedophilia because the latter two upheld “God’s natural order,” or male hegemony, while homosexuality in both sexes presented a challenge towards it. However, the Catholic church was more concerned with male sexuality, seemingly because they just couldn’t figure out how lesbians even worked. Female homosexuality was so outside of their phallic worldview that they didn’t even think it was possible! This introduction was eye-opening because it talked about issues that affect our society today, not just Renaissance Italy.

As a biography, Immodest Acts suffers because we never get a glimpse of Benedetta’s actual personality. Brown does a good job of explaining the sociopolitical factors that led to these events (for example, mystics being common for backcountry folk but discouraged by the Vatican in light of the counter-reformation) but very little about Benedetta or Bartolomea as living breathing people. To be fair, this is very hard to do when the only sources available are legal records… but when this is the case, for the pure sake of entertainment, I suppose I prefer fictionalized narratives like Verhoeven’s adaptation.

#Immodest Acts #Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy #Judith C. Brown #Benedetta Carlini #Benedetta #history #nun #religion #lgbt #biography #nonfiction #feminism #4 #june 2022 #2022

[lotus-duckies]

the thing about the benedetta movie is that you could make the argument that a number of the events that transpired in her life parallel the life of Jesus (trying to suck on Mary's breast, dying and coming back to life, that girl who killed herself after trying to expose benedetta, bartolomea betraying her and being revealed through an act of intimacy, etc) and respectfully these live in my head rent free but also they should have committed to the bit more and drive home the point of "is she actually the second coming of Christ"

#also more parallels between her relationship with Jesus and her relationship with bartolomea pls #more weird queer religion pieces pls #benedetta carlini #benedetta 2021 #tw suicide mention

[strange-aeons]

Will you ever make more gay nun content? You've given my adhd ridden ass a strange hyperfixation and you describe the stories beautifully. I like how you describe benedetta as a "problematic female CEO who needs to have sex with women 9 hours a week"

thank you for entertaining my funny little Benedetta Carlini headcanons i feel very validated by this

#benedetta carlini has been dead for 350 slutty slutty year

[castratedvader]

women who are jesus <3

#benedetta carlini the woman that you ARE

[kaltstrahls]

love seeing nuns support the lgbtq community. it’s what benedetta carlini would have wanted <3

#dove's soapbox #(benedetta carlini is an infamous lesbian nun from renaissance italy) #(possibly possessed) #(we stan)

[warningsine]

#Paul Verhoeven #benedetta #Virginie Efira #Daphné Patakia #Benedetta Carlini #Bartolomea #// #sine's edits

[mourningmaybells]

a girl's gotta eat salami

#benedetta of carlini #benedetta 2021

[mistoffeleesisawitch]

Alicent’s ideal situation for me is to join a Motherhouse (I think that’s the Westerosi equivalent of a nunnery) and become a Benedetta Carlini figure. She gets to not marry and be away from her father, devote her life to The Seven, AND have gay sex. It’s a win win win situation

#yes Rhaenyra visits #and unlike Benedetta she doesn’t get put on trial and condemned #the High Septon starts to investigate her and Rhaenyra uses Syrax to tell him to back off and let Alicent do her thing #anyways some more ThoughtsTM about Alicent #Mystic Alicent you will always be famous in my heart #I’ll manifest her into existance (or maybe just write a fic about it) #dragon show #alicent my beloved #alicent hightower #rhaenicent

[orkbutch]

Hi I've wanted to say for a long time I love your art and admire the way how you depict kink and intimacy, and I'm so glad to see your revival for bg3! On another but relevant note.... have you heard about the nun called Benedetta Carlini? I think you'd enjoy reading about her life if you haven't already 👉👈

Aw ty, im glad bg3 revived me too! HAHA oh friend, i sure have. Immodest Acts by Judith Brown is a favourite of mine. I had a story I was working on that kinda parodied/payed homage to Benedetta Carlini about a demon that visits a 17th century nun disguised as a visitation from Jesus and establishes a lesbian sex cult in their cloister. One day perhaps

#nuns #important tag ... ..

[augustameretrix]

finally got around to reading up on benedetta carlini's investigation and by far my favourite part is her stealing salami and mortadella being interpreted as signs of demonic obsession, followed by the church investigators' claim that if benedetta really had become one with christ then they as emissaries of jesus on earth would have had no beef with benedetta about her supposedly becoming one with christ because theyd been one with her. through christ

#the raunchy bits made the rounds on the internet a few years ago so I know about them #anyways as with any story such as this it is fundamentally. sad #we mostly know about queer stuff for the pain it caused in the form of abuse of power or legal punshiment. or both #ESPECIALLY when its about women #this one has everything. coercion. abuse of all sorts. self harm. mental illness. bigotry you name it

[celluloidrainbow]

BENEDETTA (2021) dir. Paul Verhoeven 17th-century Tuscany, Italy. As the sinister threat of the Plague looms over Europe, the sincerely devout eight-year-old novice, Benedetta Carlini, is brought into the Theatine Convent of the Mother of God in Pescia as a bride for Jesus Christ. Eighteen long years later, as ominous whispers of disputable miracles scandalise the cloistered sisters, a test of faith awaits deeply pious Benedetta in the shape of bruised, abused, and earthly Bartolomea: a young woman fleeing her violent father. Now, while under the vigilant eye of cynical Abbess Felicita, fleeting glimpses of the forbidden fruit invite a tentative intimacy, ungovernable desires, and intense diabolical obsessions in, and suddenly, the holy signs of faith are manifest in Sister Benedetta's body. (link in title)

#lgbt cinema #lesbian cinema #benedetta 2021 #benedetta #french cinema #dutch cinema #lgbt #lesbian #france #the netherlands #torture tw #lgbt film #lesbian film #french film #dutch films #lgbt movie #lesbian movies #lgbt media #lesbian media #queer cinema #european cinema #virginie efira #daphné patakia #charlotte rampling #paul verhoeven #2021 #2020s #2020s movies #2020s films #2020s cinema

[geoffrard]

i think if he knew about her gerard would become obsessed with benedetta carlini. lesbian nun with stigmata and visions

#well the stigmata was faked and so were the visions #or were they? #GIRLBOSS!