The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity /
Miller, Patricia Cox
The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity / Patricia Cox Miller. - 1 online resource (272 p.) : 13 illus. - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction.The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812241426 9780812204681
10.9783/9780812204681 doi
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Religious Studies.
RELIGION / Christianity / History.
Ancient Studies. Religion. Religious Studies.
BT741.3 ǂb M56 2009eb
235.2
The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity / Patricia Cox Miller. - 1 online resource (272 p.) : 13 illus. - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction.The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812241426 9780812204681
10.9783/9780812204681 doi
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Religious Studies.
RELIGION / Christianity / History.
Ancient Studies. Religion. Religious Studies.
BT741.3 ǂb M56 2009eb
235.2