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UNINA9910784094503321 |
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Autore |
Perkins Judith <1944, > |
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Titolo |
The suffering self : pain and narrative representation in early Christian era / / Judith Perkins |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-79894-6 |
0-203-21006-9 |
1-134-79895-4 |
1-280-32437-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
Pain - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
Identification (Religion) - History - To 1500 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-246) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; The Suffering Self; Copyright Page; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Death as a Happy Ending; 2. Marriages as Happy Endings; 3. Pain Without Effect; 4. Suffering and Power; 5. Healing and Power: The Acts of Peter; 6. The Sick Self; 7. Ideology, Not Pathology; 8. Saints' Lives: The Community of Sufferers; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians.This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representati |
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