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cuidus contrarium verum est: a life of christine the astonishing (chapters one to five)

by elizabeth veldon

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    as with the other tote bag this is hand painted using payne's grey acrylic and comes with a page from 'a valediction forbidding mourning'

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    a tote bag hand painted using payne's gray acrylic paint.

    comes with a page from 'a valediction forbidding mourning,' my ongoing creative diary. the pages are recycled from a certain recently published book with a rather questionable trope employed in it.

    each page is hand defaced with black printing ink and is unique.
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    the orders may not come straight away as pages are inked and removed from the book as new entries are made.

    yes, this is a published book being transformed. don't worry, it's an awful hateful, transphobic book.

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    two DVD edition of cuidus contrarium verum est: a life of christine the astonishing (chapters one to five) with a handcut sleeve housed within a two DVD case with an insert.

    the colours are purposefully symbolic.

    in the new tradition of giving names to editions this is the 'blood and purity' edition.

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chapter one: the more secluded she was, the better she was known to god 30:00
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chapter two: and while a Mass was being said for her soul, the body suddenly stirred on the brier 30:00
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chapter three: and when i saw out Lord looking joyful and well disposed towards me, then I was extraderanly happy 30:00
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chapter four: into the trees, and to the tops of towers or churches or other high places 30:00
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chapter five: then she was moved from a violent impulse and fled from the city 30:00
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about

this is the first of a series of seven releases based upon thomas of cantimpre's life of christine the astonishing.

the title comes from a medieval carol i first came across in power's 'medieval women' (Cambridge University Press, 1975) which posits that women are full of deceit and violence and translates (roughly) as 'the opposite is true.'

the oppositions between christine's position as a powerful and holy woman in the medieval period and the contemporary attempts to diagnose her in her absence with schizophrenia and/ or epilepsy is the main thrust of these albums: cuidus contrarium verum est

in creating this work i used elizabeth spearling's translation from 'Medieval Writings on Female Sexuality' (Penguin, 2002.)

in addition i used works by Barbara Newman and Eileen Power as well as dipping into Foucault's 'Madness and Civilisation.'

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released January 28, 2021

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