| Description |
xi, 314 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. |
| Series |
CUA studies in early Christianity
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-305) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : from binding to burning / Philip Rousseau -- Making the book -- The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument / John Lowden -- Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt / Chrysi Kotsifou -- Constructing texts -- Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books / Daniel Boyarin -- The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext / Catherine Burris -- Passages and places -- Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book / Catherine M. Chin -- City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark -- Ceremony and the law -- Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress -- The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield -- Texts and the body -- Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp -- Theory and the book -- Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare -- Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarme to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature, Early -- Publishing.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Klingshirn, William E.
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Safran, Linda.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0813214866 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780813214863 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780813220642 (electronic bk.) |
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