The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
Patricia Cox Miller
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus.
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4142-6 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series
Focusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyzes how Christians in late antiquity saw the material world with new eyes as a medium for the disclosure of the divine in the earthly realm. Read more . . .
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