Suffering Self : Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era.

Suffering Self : Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era.

Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perkins, Judith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1995.
Subjects:
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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