Alienation: The Experience of the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.)

Author:   Antigone Samellas
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
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9783039117895


Pages:   556
Publication Date:   20 January 2010
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Author:   Antigone Samellas
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9783039117895


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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Contents: 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.

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(...) 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)


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The 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.

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