Loading…
The garb of being : embodiment and the pursuit of holiness in late ancient Christianity /
This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and religious imagination through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
New York :
Fordham University Press,
2020.
|
| Series: | Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Dangling bodies, robes of glory : the garb of embodiment in ancient Christianity / Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, Andrew S. Jacobs
- Body and soul : union in creation, reunion at resurrection / Frances Young
- Jesus's dazzling garments : Origen's exegesis of the transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew / Arthur P. Urbano
- Conversing with clothes : Germanos and Mary's belt / Thomas Arentzen
- "Denominationalism" in fourth-century Syria : readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22-24 / Sidney H. Griffith
- A school for the soul : John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the force of ritual habit / Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
- A question of character : the "labor of composition" as "preventative medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History / Rebecca Krawiec
- "I want to be alone" : ascetic celebrity and the splendid isolation of Simeon Stylites / Andrew S. Jacobs
- Crowds and collective affect in Romanos's biblical retellings / Georgia Frank
- Christian legend in medieval Iraq : siblings, sacrifice, and sanctity in Behnam and Sarah / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Five women martyrs : from Persia to Crete / Sebastian Brock
- Gregory of Nazianzus's poetic ascetic aesthetic / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard
- Eclipsed in exile : in defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians / Bernadette McNary-Zak
- Sacred bonds : religion, relationships, and the art of pedagogy / Constance M. Furey
- "And yet the books" : Patristics in the footnotes / Susan R. Holman
- Cultural heritage preservation and canon formation : what Syriac and Coptic can teach us about the historiography of the digital humanities / Caroline T. Schroeder.