The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity.
Title:
The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity.
Author:
Miller, Patricia Cox.
ISBN:
9780812204681
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Series:
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Contents:
Cover -- 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 -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Focusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyzes how Christians in late antiquity saw the material world with new eyes as a medium for the disclosure of the divine in the earthly realm.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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