The Eternal Flame The Myths, Lore, and Hidden Histories of Valentine & Love - Couverture souple

Morrigan, Vespera

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798233244797

Editeur : Vespera Morrigan, 2025

Synopsis

Valentine was never meant to be harmless. Before he became a greeting card, Valentine was a contested figure-entangled with power, sacrifice, justice, and the cost of love misnamed as virtue. The Eternal Flame returns to the older story beneath the roses and restores Valentine to his original terrain: myth, blood, law, and choice.Blending mythology, history, feminist ethics, and cultural analysis, Vespera Morrigan traces love's evolution from sacred bond to social demand-and asks what was lost along the way. Through figures such as Lilith and Brigid, medieval martyr narratives, and the biological realities of the human heart, this book examines how love has been used to justify endurance, silence, and harm-and how it can be reclaimed without possession or coercion. This is not a romance book. It is a book about love as an ethical act. Written for readers who sense that Valentine's Day asks something unreasonable of them, The Eternal Flame offers a rigorous, compassionate re-examination of intimacy, consent, and sovereignty. It is a work for those who refuse sentimental answers and are ready to tend love as a living fire-one that warms, illuminates, and does not consume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vespera Morrigan
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798233244797
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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