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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786098603321

Titolo

The early Christian book [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William E. Klingshirn & Linda Safran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8132-2064-5

0-8132-1531-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 314 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations

Collana

CUA studies in early Christianity

Altri autori (Persone)

KlingshirnWilliam E

SafranLinda

Disciplina

002.088/2701

Soggetti

Christian literature, Early - History and criticism

Christian literature, Early - Publishing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : from binding to burning / Philip Rousseau -- Making the book -- The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument / John Lowden -- Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt / Chrysi Kotsifou -- Constructing texts -- Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books / Daniel Boyarin -- The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext / Catherine Burris -- Passages and places -- Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book / Catherine M. Chin -- City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark -- Ceremony and the law -- Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress -- The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield -- Texts and the body -- Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp -- Theory and the book -- Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare -- Theory, or the dream of the book (MallarmeĢ to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey.