The lives of objects : material culture, experience, and the real in the history of early christianity

1. Verfasser: Kotrosits, Maia , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Umfang/Format: 243 pages ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Class 200, new studies in religion
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Objects made real: the art of description
  • Citizens of fallen cities: ruins, diaspora, and the material unconscious
  • Histories unwritten in stone: the frustrations of memorialization
  • Tertullian of Carthage and the materiality of power (with Carly Daniel-Hughes)
  • The perils of translation: martyrs' last words and the cultural materiality of speech
  • Penetration and its discontents: agency, touch, and objects of desire
  • Darkening the discipline: fantasies of efficacy and the art of redescription.