Unfinished Christians : ritual objects and silent subjects in late antiquity /

What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce sex or choose voluntary poverty become Christian? They neither led a religious community nor did they...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frank, Georgia, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Liturgy > History > To 1500.
Catholic Church.
To 1500
Christian life > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Laity > Catholic Church > History > To 1500.
Sermons, Early Christian.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian literature, Early.
RELIGION / Christianity / History
Christian life > Early church.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Laity > Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. "A Commencement of Reality": Lived Religion and Ordinary Christians
  • Chapter 2. Crafting the Unfinished Christian: Baptisteries as Workshops
  • Chapter 3. Processions and Portabilia
  • Chapter 4. Liturgical Emotions and Layered Temporalities
  • Chapter 5. Singing and Sensing the Night
  • Conclusion. Silent Subjects, Ritual Objects
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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