{"product_id":"the-garb-of-being-9780823287024","title":"The Garb of Being","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiencessolitary and social, private and publicthat clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? \u003ci\u003eThe Garb of Being\u003c\/i\u003e investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies.\u003cbr\u003eContributors include S. Abrams Rebillard, T. Arentzen, S. P. Brock, R. S. Falcasantos , C. M. Furey, S. H. Griffith, R. Krawiec, B. McNary-Zak, J.-N. Mellon Saint-Laurent, C. T. Schroeder, A. P. Urbano, F. M. Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e | xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e. Dangling Bodies, Robes of Glory: The Garb of Embodiment in Ancient Christianity\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs\u003c\/i\u003e | 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Making Bodies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Body and Soul: Union in Creation, Reunion at Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances Young\u003c\/i\u003e | 15\u003cbr\u003e Jesus’s Dazzling Garments: Origen’s Exegesis of the Transfiguration\u003cbr\u003e in the Commentary on Matthew\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArthur P. Urbano\u003c\/i\u003e | 35\u003cbr\u003e Conversing with Clothes: Germanos and Mary’s Belt\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Arentzen\u003c\/i\u003e | 57\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Performing Bodies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Denominationalism” in Fourth-Century Syria: Readings in \u003cbr\u003e Saint Ephraem’s Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22–24\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSidney H. Griffith \u003c\/i\u003e| 79\u003cbr\u003e A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual Habit\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRebecca Stephens Falcasantos\u003c\/i\u003e | 101\u003cbr\u003e A Question of Character: The “Labor of Composition” as \u003cbr\u003e “Preventative Medicine” in Theodoret of Cyrrhus’s Religious History\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRebecca Krawiec\u003c\/i\u003e | 124\u003cbr\u003e “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid\u003cbr\u003e Isolation of Simeon Stylites\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew S. Jacobs \u003c\/i\u003e| 145\u003cbr\u003e Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos’s Biblical Retellings\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Frank\u003c\/i\u003e | 169\u003cbr\u003e Christian Legend in Medieval Iraq: Siblings, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Behnam and Sarah\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeanne-Nicole \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMellon Saint-Laurent\u003c\/i\u003e | 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Scripting Bodies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five Women Martyrs: From Persia to Crete\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSebastian Brock \u003c\/i\u003e| 221\u003cbr\u003e Gregory of Nazianzus’s Poetic Ascetic Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuzanne Abrams Rebillard\u003c\/i\u003e | 234\u003cbr\u003e Eclipsed in Exile: In Defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBernadette McNary-Zak\u003c\/i\u003e | 263\u003cbr\u003e Sacred Bonds: Religion, Relationships, and the Art of Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eConstance M. Furey\u003c\/i\u003e | 276\u003cbr\u003e “And Yet the Books”: Patristics in the Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan R. Holman\u003c\/i\u003e | 294\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Heritage Preservation and Canon Formation:\u003cbr\u003e What Syriac and Coptic Can Teach Usabout the Historiography of the Digital Humanities\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaroline T. Schroeder\u003c\/i\u003e | 318\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e | 347\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e | 391\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e | 397\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406158537047,"sku":"9780823287024","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823287024.jpg?v=1730494732","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-garb-of-being-9780823287024","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}