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The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity

By Patricia Cox Miller

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780812204681
DOI
10.9783/9780812204681
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2053961 bytes)
Pages
272\271
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 18:32:52

Description

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. 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.

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