The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
Patricia Cox MillerFocusing 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.
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.
Année:
2012
Editeur::
University of Pennsylvania Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
0812204689
ISBN 13:
9780812204681
Fichier:
PDF, 1.96 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012