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

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.

List of contents

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