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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Antigone SamellasPublisher: Verlag Peter Lang Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang Edition: New edition Weight: 0.820kg ISBN: 9783039117895ISBN 10: 3039117890 Pages: 556 Publication Date: 20 January 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock ![]() The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents: Life is a Theatre: The Theatricality of Everyday Life - From Distantiation as Affirmation to Distantiation as Negation - `Dead to the World': Asceticism and its Pleasures - From Stigmatization to Deculpabilization: Attitudes towards the Mentally Ill in Late Antiquity and the Healing Process in their Religious and Social Context - Sun's Justice: Social Utopia as an antidote to Alienation - Imperialism and Christianity - Martyrs, Criminals and Convicts: Christians show Solidarity towards the Outlaws without, ultimately, questioning the Law - True Life: Reading as Salvation.Reviews(...) the writer has an impressive command of the patristic literature and a productively catholic approach to modern scholarship ranging from social psychology to Greek epigraphy. She does not make the case that alienation is 'the' experience that provides the key to understanding late antiquity, but has provided much challenging historical material to ponder. (Stephen Mitchell, The Catholic Historical Review) (...) the writer has an impressive command of the patristic literature and a productively catholic approach to modern scholarship ranging from social psychology to Greek epigraphy. She does not make the case that alienation is 'the' experience that provides the key to understanding late antiquity, but has provided much challenging historical material to ponder. (Stephen Mitchell, The Catholic Historical Review) Author InformationThe Author: Antigone Samellas was born in Athens, Greece. She received a B.A. in Sociology at Connecticut College in 1987 and an M.A. in Sociology at the London School of Economics in 1989. She then studied History at Yale University and obtained an M.A. in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1999. In 2002 she published Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East. An Interpretation. She is currently an independent scholar. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |