The suffering self : pain and narrative representation in early Christian era / / Judith Perkins
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 272/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-246) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The suffering self |
| ISBN: | 0-203-21006-9 |
| 1-134-79895-4 | |
| 1-280-32437-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450859003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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