Doctors in the Choir: Healing Embodiment and Ingestion in Early Church Space
Holy physicians (anargyroi) dominate an eighth-century program of encaustic paintings in the Church of the Holy Virgin at the monastery of Deir al-Surian, yet the site is not known to have been nor included a healing sanctuary. This essay considers theological and therapeutic meanings of this progra...
| Published in: | Journal of early Christian studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2020-06-10]
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Journal of early Christian studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dayr as-Suryān
/ Mural painting
/ Female saint (Motif)
/ Physician (Motif)
/ Healing (Motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CE Christian art KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa KCD Hagiography; saints |
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| Summary: | Holy physicians (anargyroi) dominate an eighth-century program of encaustic paintings in the Church of the Holy Virgin at the monastery of Deir al-Surian, yet the site is not known to have been nor included a healing sanctuary. This essay considers theological and therapeutic meanings of this program in relation to the anti-Julianist controversy as it related to healing nurture of Christ’s body, eucharistic theology, diverse narratives of medicine, the vulnerable body, and pious defacement of holy images. A brief comparison with the Chapel of the Physicians at Rome and an Egyptian cave church suggests that Deir al-Surian’s anargyroi program was not unique in late antique liturgical architecture. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2020.0021 |