Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity (Variorum Collected Studies) [1 ed.] 9781409423751, 1409423751

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Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity (Variorum Collected Studies) [1 ed.]
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyrigh Page
Table of Contents
Publisher’s Note
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Bodies and Minds: The Limits of Reason
I: The Fathers and the Children
II: Cosmic Sympathies: Nature as the Expression of Divine Purpose
III: The Fathers and the Animals: The Rule of Reason?
IV: Animal Passions
Bodies and Gender: Christian Challenges
V: Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender
VI: ‘The Bright Frontier of Friendship’: Augustine and the Christian Body as Frontier
VII: Adam’s Womb (Augustine, Confessions 13.28) and the Salty Sea
VIII: Bodies and Blood: Late Antique Debate on Martyrdom, Virginity and Resurrection
IX: The Old Adam: The Fathers and the Unmaking of Masculinity
X: Adam’s Engendering: Augustine on Gender and Creation
XI: 'In the Foreskin of Your Flesh': The Pure Male Body in Late Antiquity
Bodies and Souls: The Philosophic Life
XII: Victricius of Rouen: Praising the Saints
XIII: Translating Relics: Victricius of Rouen and Fourth-Century Debate
XIV: Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the New Barbarians
XV: Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus
XVI: Fattening the Soul: Christian Asceticism and Porphyry on Abstinence
XVII: The Health of the Spiritual Athlete
XVIII: Do Try This at Home: The Domestic Philosopher in Late Antiquity
Addenda
Index

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