The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity

Patricia Cox Miller

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2009

The Corporeal Imagination

Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity

Patricia Cox Miller

In the series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204681

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Patricia Cox Miller is W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Syracuse University. She is author of Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man and Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture and editor (with Dale B. Martin) of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography.

Reviews

"[Cox Miller's] probings are meticulous, provocative, and incisive. To read this book is to have one's own viewing turned inside out."—Theological Studies

"The Corporeal Imagination is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and fascinating book. It is important and delightful reading, a skillful interpretation that makes vivid a central problematic on which Christian belief and practice depend, namely, the simultaneous establishment of the nonnegotiable difference of matter and the holy and the perennial urge to bring them as close together as possible, yet without collapsing one into the other."—Journal of Religion

"A highly original contribution to the history of Christianity as well as to the study of religion. Eloquent and learned, this book offers many new insights and models for reflection. The Corporeal Imagination will appeal to scholars of religion, theologians, historians of late antiquity, and historians of art."—J. Rebecca Lyman, Professor Emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Bodies and Selves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter Two. Bodies in Fragments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Chapter Three. Dazzling Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter Four. Bodies and Spectacles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter Five. Ambiguous Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter Six. Subtle Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter Seven. Animated Bodies and Icons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter Eight. Saintly Bodies as Image-Flesh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Chapter Nine. Incongruous Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 13 illus.
Keywords: Religion; Ancient Studies; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: February 28, 2012
ISBN: 9780812204681