Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity

Collection of papers by Gilian Clark, which have been published before in journals or books. I. The Fathers and the children. (p. 1-27) II. Cosmic Sympathies: nature as the expression of divine purpose. (p. 310-329) III. The Fathers and the animals: the rule of reason? (p. 67-79; 265-266) IV. Anima...

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Author:Gillian Clark
Published: Ashgate, Farnham, 2011
Series:Variorum Collected Studies Series
Volume:978
Language:English
Total Pages:xiv-330 p.
ISBN:978 1 4094 2375 1
Format:Book
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:Collection of papers by Gilian Clark, which have been published before in journals or books. I. The Fathers and the children. (p. 1-27) II. Cosmic Sympathies: nature as the expression of divine purpose. (p. 310-329) III. The Fathers and the animals: the rule of reason? (p. 67-79; 265-266) IV. Animal Passions. (p. 88-93) V. Women and asceticism in late antiquity: the refusal of status and gender. (p. 33-48) VI. 'The bright frontier of friendship': Augustine and the Christian body as frontier. (p. 217-229) VII. Adam's womb (Augustine, Confessions 13.28) and the salty sea. (p. 89-105) VIII. Bodies and blood: late antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection. (p. 99-115) IX. The old Adam: the Fathers and the unmaking of masculinity. (p. 170-182) X. Adam's engendering: Augustine on gender and creation. (p. 13-22) XI. 'In the foreskin of your flesh': the pure male body in late antiquity. (p. 43-53) XII. Victricius of Rouen: Praising the Saints (p. 365-399) XIII. Translating relics: Victricius of Rouen and fourth-century debate. (p. 161-176) XIV. Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the new barbarians. (p. 112-132) XV. Philosophic Lives and the philosophic life: Porphyry and Iamblichus. (p. 29-51) XVI. Fattening the soul: Christian asceticism and Porphyry On Abstinence (p. 41-51) XVII. The health of the spiritual athlete (p. 216-229) XVIII. Do try this at home: the domestic philosopher in late antiquity. (p. 153-172)

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