ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|15 pages
From India
chapter 1|13 pages
Celibacy, Sexuality, and Monasticism in Early South Asia
part II|350 pages
Through the Late Antique Mediterranean
part II.1|108 pages
Gender and the Self in Greek Philosophy
part II.2|55 pages
Gender, The Body, and Christian Theology
chapter 8|11 pages
Identical, But Not Alike
chapter 9|22 pages
Fatherhood and Sonship
part II.3|70 pages
Augustine on Soul, Body, and Sexuality
chapter 10|13 pages
Man, Woman, and Serpent as the Inner State of One Person
chapter 11|26 pages
From Matter to History
part II.4|80 pages
Bodily Transformations in Hagiography and Magic
chapter 15|11 pages
The Im/materiality of the Will?
chapter 17|14 pages
From the Depths of Sin to the Highness of Holiness
part II.5|34 pages
Virility in Roman Rhetoric
chapter 18|19 pages
“Neglegentissimus Vernula”
chapter 19|13 pages
From Inanity to Ideology
part III|16 pages
To the Ancient Mediterranean and India