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Title
Body and gender, soul and reason in late antiquity
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Monograph
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English
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LCC: BT741.3 .C53 2011
DDC: 128.6 full
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Summary
What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? Late antique philosophers asked these central questions. The papers collected here explore their answers, and use those answers to ask further questions. -- preface
Table Of Contents
[Part 1]. Bodies and minds: the limits of reason: The Fathers and the children
Cosmic sympathies: nature as the expression of divine purpose
The Fathers and the animals: the rule of reason?
Animal passions. [Part 2]. Bodies and gender: Christian challenges: Women and asceticism in late antiquity: the refusal of status and gender
'The bright frontier of friendship': Augustine and the Christian body as frontier
Adam's womb (Augustine, Confessions 13.28) and the salty sea
Bodies and blood: late antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection
The old Adam: the Fathers and the unmaking of masculinity
Adam's engendering: Augustine on gender and creation
'In the foreskin of your flesh': the pure male body in late antiquity. [Part 3]. Bodies and souls: the philosophic life. Victricius of Rouen: Praising the Saints
Translating relics: Victricius of Rouen and fourth-century debate
Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the new barbarians
Philosophic Lives and the philosophic life: Porphyry and Iamblichus
Fattening the soul: Christian asceticism and Porphyry On Abstinence
The health of the spiritual athlete
Do try this at home: the domestic philosopher in late antiquity.
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Clark, Gillian (E. Gillian) Body and gender, soul and reason in late antiquity