Rhetoric of the pious empire and the rhetoric of flight from the world, the: a socio-rhetorical reading of the life of melania the younger
Auteur :
Jeon, Kyung-mee
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG
ISBN :
9783631770399
Date de publication :
23 nov. 2018
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
341 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
The author examines early Christian rhetorical language and its broader religious and cultural contexts. The tension of the dual subjectivity emerging in the asceticism of the heart and the ideological and material aspects of Christian imperialism in the context of the Holy Land and Constantinople takes the reader into new intellectual territory.