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...
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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
Year: 2020, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 255-282 |
| 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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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |