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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians.This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representati

Suffering --- Pain --- Identification (Religion) --- Identity (Religion) --- Religious identity --- Psychology, Religious --- Aches --- Emotions --- Pleasure --- Senses and sensation --- Symptoms --- Analgesia --- Affliction --- Masochism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History --- Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Pain - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Identification (Religion) - History - To 1500.

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In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, "barbarians" and "civilized" people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices.This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to examine the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in classical antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as well as divine bodies and animal bodies. The articles draw on a range of evidence and approaches, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, and explore the ways bodies can transgress and dissolve, as well shore up, or even create, boundaries and hierarchies. This volume shows that boundaries are constantly negotiated, shifted and refigured through the practices and potentialities of embodiment.

Human body in literature --- Human body --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Social aspects --- Human body in literature. --- Corps humain --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Aspect social --- Ancient Greek Literature. --- Body (Cultural Concepts). --- Classical Latin Literature. --- History of Ancient Arts.