Judith Perkins

Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which fictional narratives were used to explore tensions between the individual and the dominant culture attendant on the rise of Christianity, and the displacement of Greeks from the hegemonic position in the Roman empire.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415397445
• ISBN-10: 0415397448
• Artikelnr.: 25684714

Autorenporträt

Judith Perkins is professor of Classics and Humanities at Saint Joseph College, Connecticut. Her research focuses on the social and cultural dynamics of early Christian representation in its historical matrix. She is the author of The Suffering Self (Routledge 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cosmopolitan Identities 2. False Deaths and new Bodies 3. Constructing a
Patriarchal Elite 4. Resurrection and Judicial Bodies 5. Place, Space and
Voice 6. Trimalchio: Transformations and Possibilities 7. Reurrection and
Social Perspectives 8. The Rhetoric of the Mternal Body 9. Competing
Chronologies