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Gregory of Nyssa as biographer : weaving lives for virtuous readers / Allison L. Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Allison L., 1983- author.
- Series:
- Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 1436-3003 123.
- Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 1436-3003 ; 123
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. Vita Moysis.
- Gregory.
- Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. Vita Sanctae Macrinae.
- Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. Vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi.
- Religious biography--History and criticism.
- Religious biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction : The Woven Garment
- A Biographical Snapshot of Gregory
- Three Narrated Lives
- Genre : Encomiastic Bios
- Encomiastic Compositions
- Bios
- Weaving Lives and Lives : Gregory's Stated Purpose and the Reader
- Virtue and Text
- The Reader
- Reading and the Woven Garment
- Plan of the Book
- Prooimia and Gregory's Literary Craft
- Beginnings in Rhetoric
- Introductions in the Bioi
- Thaumaturgus, VGT 1-3
- Moses, VM I.1-15
- Macrina, VSM 1
- Conclusion
- Exemplar and Reader : The Genos of an Interpreter
- The Origin of an Exemplar
- Universalizing Genos
- Thaumaturgus, VGT 4-10
- Macrina, VSM 2
- Moses, VM I.16 and II.1-5
- Anatrophe : Transformation and Constancy
- Raising an Exemplar
- Upbringing in the Bioi
- Macrina : Gold and the Athlete
- Moses : Fighting for Virtue
- Thaumaturgus : Plants and Husbandry
- Bringing up Readers : An Imitable Christian Paideia
- Developmental Stages and Modes of Learning : An Analytic
- Three Developmental Stages
- Modes of Learning : The Three Rs
- Exemplary Paideia
- Early Aptitude and the Turn from Worldly Concerns
- Macrina, VSM 3-4
- Thaumaturgus, VGT 11-22
- Moses, VM I.17-19 and VM II.6-18
- Advancing by Way of Retreat
- Moses, VM I.20-22 and VM II.19-53
- Thaumaturgus, VGT 23-27
- Macrina, VSM 5-11
- Reproducing Exemplary Learning
- Moses, VM I.29 and VM II.112-116
- Thaumaturgus, VGT 28ff
- Macrina, VSM 12ff
- The Fourth-century Audience and Paideia
- Reading
- Relationships
- Revelation
- Seeing Praxeis, Seeing Virtue
- Virtuous Praxeis : Soul Made Visible
- Narrating Praxeis
- Christian Platonic Anthropology in the Bioi
- Vision and Epistemology in Reading Bioi
- Beyond the Senses : Vision and Communication
- Readings of Revelation
- Problematizing Physical Sense Perception in Revelations
- Rehabilitating Sense Perception for Narrative
- Vision in the Desert, VGT 28-34
- The Tabernacle, VM II.169
- Dream Vision, VSM 2
- Interpreting Praxeis : Practicing Virtue
- Training the Eyes : Vision as a Metric of Success
- Internal Audiences and Readers' Mimesis
- Internal Audiences on a Spectrum
- Internal Audience as Model
- Seeing with a Community
- The Invitation to See : Vision and Imaginative Participation
- Eyewitnesses across Time
- The Author's Voice
- Shared Sense
- "To live with the senses, " VSM 11
- Imagining Frogs, VM II.68-72
- Thaumaturgus as a Test Case, VGT 79-88
- Thanatos : Narrating a Death, Reading a Life
- Narrating the Final Praxis : Thanatos and Euthanasia
- Encomiastic Bios and Thanatos as Praxis
- Last Words
- Reactions of Witnesses
- Events after Death
- Summary
- Thanatos : the Exemplar's Life in Death
- Thaumaturgus : The Exemplar's Sojourn
- Moses and the Next Life
- Noble Death in the Historia, VM I.75-76
- Incorruptibility in the Theoria, VM II.305-318
- Imitating Incorruptibility
- Macrina's Holy Body
- Last Words : The Deathbed Prayer, VSM 22-25
- Macrina's Corpse
- Healing Blindness, VSM 36-39
- Conclusion : The Garment of Virtue and the Weaver's Craft
- Concluding a Bios
- Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects.
- Notes:
- Revised thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9783161575594
- 3161575598
- Publisher Number:
- 99988444160
- 9783161575587
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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