Unfinished Christians : : Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity / / Georgia Frank.
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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Frank, Georgia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Unfinished Christians : Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity / Georgia Frank. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 live in entirely Christian settings. In this period, an age marked by “extraordinary” Christians—wonderworking saints, household ascetics, hermits, monks, nuns, pious aristocrats, pilgrims, and bishops—ordinary Christians went about their daily lives, in various occupations, raising families, sharing households, kitchens, and baths in religiously diverse cities. Occasionally they attended church liturgies, sought out local healers, and visited martyrs’ shrines. Barely and rarely mentioned in ancient texts, common Christians remain nameless and undifferentiated.Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians who assembled for rituals. With precious few first-person accounts by common Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns. All three genres of writing are composed by clergy for use in ritual settings. Yet they may also provide glimpses of everyday Christians’ lives and experiences. This book investigates the habits, objects, behaviors, and movements of ordinary Christians by mining festal preaching by John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nyssa, and Romanos the Melodist, among others. It also mines liturgical instructions to explore the psalms and other songs performed on various feast days. “Unfinished,” then, connotes the creativity and agency of unremarkable Christians who engaged in making religious experiences: the “Christian-in-progress” who learns to work with material and bring something into being; the artisans who attended sermons; and, more widely, the bearers of embodied knowing. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Christian life History Early church, ca. 30-600. Christian literature, Early. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Laity Catholic Church History To 1500. Sermons, Early Christian. History-Ancient/Classical up to 500 CE. Religion-Christianity. Religion-History of Religion. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Baptism. Cyril of Jerusalem. Early Christianity. Greek. Gregory of Nyssa. Hymnography. John Chrysostom. Laity. Liturgy. Lived religion. Preacher and Audience. Religion and materiality. Romanos the Melodist. Senses. feast day. festal hymns. fourth fifth sixth century. instruction books. late antiquity. night vigil. procession. sermons. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2023 English 9783111319087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2023 9783111318110 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110791372 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512823967?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512823967 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512823967/original |
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