The Corporeal Imagination : : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity / / Patricia Cox Miller.
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
|
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 illus. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Bodies and Selves
- Chapter Two. Bodies in Fragments
- Chapter Three. Dazzling Bodies
- Chapter Four. Bodies and Spectacles
- Chapter Five. Ambiguous Bodies
- Chapter Six. Subtle Bodies
- Chapter Seven. Animated Bodies and Icons
- Chapter Eight. Saintly Bodies as Image-Flesh
- Chapter Nine. Incongruous Bodies
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments