A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity

Author: Anna Marmodoro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1316859290

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The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including history, philosophy, classics and theology. Several chapters survey wider themes which provide context for detailed studies of the work of individual philosophers including Numenius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Damascius and Augustine. Wide-ranging and accessible, with translations given for all texts in the original language, this book will be essential for students and scholars of late antique thought, the history of religion and theology, and the philosophy of mind.

A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity

Author: Anna Marmodoro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 895

ISBN-13: 1316856631

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The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including history, philosophy, classics and theology. Several chapters survey wider themes which provide context for detailed studies of the work of individual philosophers including Numenius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Damascius and Augustine. Wide-ranging and accessible, with translations given for all texts in the original language, this book will be essential for students and scholars of late antique thought, the history of religion and theology, and the philosophy of mind.

Daily Life in Late Antiquity
Daily Life in Late Antiquity

Author: Kristina Sessa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-09

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0521766109

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This book introduces readers to lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE.

Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity
Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity

Author: Paul Dilley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1107184010

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This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sources for communal monasticism, many translated into English for the first time, while drawing on cognitive studies to understand key disciplines like prayer and collective repentance.

Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Author: Jelena Bogdanovic

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1351359606

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Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in the medieval Mediterranean. Case studies examine encounters with the holy through the perspective of the human body and sensory dimensions of sacred space, and discuss the dynamics of perception when experiencing what was constructed, represented, and understood as sacred. The comparative analysis investigates viewers’ recognitions of the sacred in specific locations or segments of space with an emphasis on the experiential and conceptual relationships between sacred spaces and human bodies. This volume thus reassesses the empowering aspects of space, time, and human agency in religious contexts. By focusing on investigations of human endeavors towards experiential and visual expressions that shape perceptions of holiness, this study ultimately aims to present a better understanding of the corporeality of sacred art and architecture. The research points to how early Christians and Byzantines teleologically viewed the divine source of the sacred in terms of its ability to bring together – but never fully dissolve – the distinctions between the human and divine realms. The revealed mechanisms of iconic perception and noetic contemplation have the potential to shape knowledge of the meanings of the sacred as well as to improve our understanding of the liminality of the profane and the sacred.

The Corporeal Imagination
The Corporeal Imagination

Author: Patricia Cox Miller

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0812204689

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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.

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

Author: Anna Marmodoro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107061539

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This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.

Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity
Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity

Author: Stanimir Panayotov

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1003818803

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Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies, late antique philosophy, patristics, history of asceticism, and history of Indian philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean, providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry, exploring close readings of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another, and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender, sexuality, body, and soul in this period. Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history, philosophy, and theology.

The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity

Author: Lloyd P. Gerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-10

Total Pages: 1584

ISBN-13: 1316175936

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (edited by A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.

Dreams in Late Antiquity
Dreams in Late Antiquity

Author: Patricia Cox Miller

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1998-01-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780691058351

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Centuries.... By studying together pagan and Christian dreams, Cox Miller hopes to reach a better understanding of some fundamental patterns of late antique culture. DLGuy G. Stroumsa, The Journal of Religion A fluent and discursive text.... This is an adventurous exploration of a range of material which deserves to be more widely known.DLGillian Clark, The Classical Review.