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In the Eye of the Animal - Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity

English · Hardback

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Patricia Cox Miller is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion Emerita at Syracuse University. She is author of five books, including The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Animals and Figuration: The Case of Birds

Chapter 2. The Pensivity of Animals, I: Zoomorphism

Chapter 3. The Pensivity of Animals, II: Anthropomorphism

Chapter 4. Wild Animals: Desert Ascetics and Their Companions

Chapter 5. Small Things: The Vibrant Materiality of Tiny Creatures

Afterword

Appendix: Ancient Christian and Other Authors

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgment


About the author










Patricia Cox Miller is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion Emerita at Syracuse University. She is author of five books, including The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Summary

In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how ancient texts and images celebrated a continuum of human and animal life.

Product details

Authors Patricia Cox Miller
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.07.2018
 
EAN 9780812250350
ISBN 978-0-8122-5035-0
No. of pages 277
Series Divinations: Rereading Late An
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Divinations: Rereading Late An
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works

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