Flesh Made Word. Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination. Translated by J.M. Todd. - KLEINBERG, A.,
Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination
KORTE INHOUD
'Aviad Kleinberg's Flesh Made Word examines the work of hagiography in Christian culture from the time of St. Perpetua in the second century to the composition and reception of the Golden Legend at the end of the thirteenth century. His central thesis is that although hagiography was ostensibly created to further the political and doctrinal goals of the Catholic Church, ecclesiastical elites were unable to control the content and reception of saints' lives sufficiently to entirely serve the church's needs. As a result, hagiography became a site of alternative Christian theologies, a space for ambiguity and multiplicity of belief. To provide evidence for his thesis, Kleinberg examines several saints' lives in detail while spending intervening chapters analyzing changes in the genre of hagiography. For instance, Athanasius' Life of St. Antony is described as a textbook of asceticism written in the form of a biography. The role of early ascetics, existing both inside and beyond society and between spiritual and...
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2008Uitgever: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press300 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0674026470ISBN-13: 9780674026476Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's orange cloth spine, orange paper-covered boards, black title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: xij, 340pp., chapternotes & references, conclusion, index, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. Cambridge [MA]-London, Harvard University Press. 2008 [Auteur: KLEINBERG, AVIAD] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: Flesh Made Word. Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination.]
Cambridge (Mass.)/London, 2008. XII,340p. Half cloth with dust wrps. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: KLEINBERG, A.,] [Uitgever: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: Flesh Made Word. Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination. Translated by J.M. Todd.]
