Desert Asceticism and "The Body from Nowhere"
This essay is an exploration of an apparent conundrum in reports about the desert ascetics of the fourth and fifth centuries, in which emaciated and mutilated bodies were seen as angelic bodies. Drawing on a theory of the construction of visual perception as well as on theories drawn from performati...
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| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1994
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 1994, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-153 |
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