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200 14$aThe suffering self $epain and narrative representation in early Christian era /$fJudith Perkins
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1995.
215   $a1 online resource (262 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 228-246) and index.
327   $aFront 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
330   $aThe 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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606   $aIdentification (Religion)$xHistory$yTo 1500
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