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Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment.
Bringing together gender studies, late antique philosophy, patristics, history of asceticism, and history of Indian philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book's geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean, providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry, exploring close readings of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another, and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender, sexuality, body, and soul in this period.
Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history, philosophy, and theology.
Contents
Introduction STANIMIR PANAYOTOV, ANDRA JUGĂNARU, ANASTASIA THEOLOGOU AND ISTVÁN PERCZEL; I From India 1. Celibacy, Sexuality, and Monasticism in Early South Asia: A Personal Dialogue with the Past UMA CHAKRAVARTI; II Through the Late Antique Mediterranean II.1 Gender and the Self in Greek Philosophy 2. Light, Knowledge, Incorporeality, and the Feminine in Parmenides EMESE MOGYORÓDI; 3 Plotinus: Seeing the Self in Unity ANASTASIA THEOLOGOU; 4. Sexless Henology, or, Is Plotinus' One Neutral to Sex and Gender? STANIMIR PANAYOTOV; 5 The Two Aphrodites: Plotinus, Proclus, and the Sublimation of Bodily Desires CHIARA MILITELLO; 6 In/violability as Evidence in Heliodorus NATHALIE SCHULER; II.2 Gender, The Body, and Christian Theology; 7 Male and Female in the Protevangelium Jacobi GYÖRGY GERÉBY; 8 Identical, But Not Alike: The Resurrection of the Body According to Amphilochius of Iconium István ISTVÁN PÁSZTORI-KUPÁN; 9 Fatherhood and Sonship: The Use of Concepts of Reproduction and Gendered Perspectives in the Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Controversy ORSOLYA VARSÁNYI; II.3 Augustine on Soul, Body, and Sexuality; 10 Man, Woman, and Serpent as the Inner State of One Person: Anthropology Based on the Interpretation of Genesis 3 in Didymus the Blind and Augustine of Hippo PETER D. STEIGER AND MAKIKO SATO; 11 From Matter to History: Towards a Disembodied Interpretation of Human Sexuality in Augustine ISABELLE KOCH; 12 Augustine on the Uniqueness of Sexual Desire Among the Passions and on the Ambivalent Character of Sexual Life Within a Christian Marriage GÁBOR KENDEFFY; II.4 Bodily Transformations in Hagiography and Magic; 13 Shame in the Development of Christian Identity in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs ANA-MARIA RĂDUCAN; 14 Historicizing Trans Saints: Gender, Sexuality, and Agency in the Life of Pelagia MARIANA BODNARUK; 15 The Im/materiality of the Will?: The Life of Dositheus and Delicia Children in Late Antiquity JONATHAN CAHANA-BLUM; 16 Menopause and Agency in Late Antiquity: A Case for Magical Gems JORDAN POOLE; 17 From the Depths of Sin to the Highness of Holiness: The Female Body as Witness of the Journey to Sanctity in the Life of Mary the Egyptian ANDRA JUGĂNARU; II.5 Virility in Roman Rhetoric; 18 "Neglegentissimus Vernula": Manliness and Imperial Legitimation in Pacatus' Panegyric in Praise of the Emperor Theodosius's Civil War Victory SUSANNA ELM; 19 From Inanity to Ideology: The Allurements of Narrative in Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii DAVID ROLLO; III. To the Ancient Mediterranean and India; 20 Solomon's Song of Songs and Adi Shankara's Soundarya Lahari: A Comparison SUSAN VISVANATHAN; IV APPENDIX; Marianne Sághy: Bibliography ANDRA JUGĂNARU
