1 option
The Garb of Being : Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity / Georgia Frank, Susan Holman, Andrew Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (427 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social, private and public—that clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? The Garb of Being investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies.Contributors include S. Abrams Rebillard, T. Arentzen, S. P. Brock, R. S. Falcasantos , C. M. Furey, S. H. Griffith, R. Krawiec, B. McNary-Zak, J.-N. Mellon Saint-Laurent, C. T. Schroeder, A. P. Urbano, F. M. Young
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. Dangling Bodies, Robes of Glory: The Garb of Embodiment in Ancient Christianity
- Body and Soul: Union in Creation, Reunion at Resurrection
- Jesus’s Dazzling Garments: Origen’s Exegesis of the Transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew
- Conversing with Clothes: Germanos and Mary’s Belt
- “Denominationalism” in Fourth-Century Syria: Readings in Saint Ephraem’s Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22–24
- A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual Habit
- A Question of Character: The “Labor of Composition” as “Preventative Medicine” in Theodoret of Cyrrhus’s Religious History
- “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites
- Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos’s Biblical Retellings
- Christian Legend in Medieval Iraq: Siblings, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Behnam and Sarah
- Five Women Martyrs: From Persia to Crete
- Gregory of Nazianzus’s Poetic Ascetic Aesthetic
- Eclipsed in Exile: In Defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians
- Sacred Bonds: Religion, Relationships, and the Art of Pedagogy
- “And Yet the Books”: Patristics in the Footnotes
- Cultural Heritage Preservation and Canon Formation: What Syriac and Coptic Can Teach Us about the Historiography of the Digital Humanities
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8704-1
- OCLC:
- 1167930588
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.