The rhetoric of the pious empire and the rhetoric of flight from the world

The rhetoric of the pious empire and the rhetoric of flight from the world: a socio-rhetorical reading of the life of Melania the Younger

by Jeon, Kyung-Mee

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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.

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  • Full title :The rhetoric of the pious empire and the rhetoric of flight from the world : a socio-rhetorical reading of the life of Melania the Younger / Jeon, Kyung-mee.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Peter Lang
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783631772522, 3631772521
  • oclc:on1079363890
  • LC Classification:BR1720.M37
  • Dewey Decimal:270.2092

Table of Contents

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Hagiography, Roman Women's Asceticism of the Heart, Jerusalem, and Empire; 1. Overview of this Study; 2. Overview of Recent Studies on Hagiography and Ascetic Women in Late Antique Christianity; 3. The Location of this Study in Recent Studies on Late Antique Christian Holy Women; 4. Methodology; 4.1. Rhetoric and the Socio-Religious Rhetorical Approach in this Study; 4.2. Text and Context, and the Approach of this Study; 4.3. This Study's Approach to Roman Women's Asceticism of the Heart

4.4. This Study's Approach to Christian Imperialism in the Roman Empire5. Procedure; 6. The Life of Melania the Younger: Brief Introduction to the Main Editions of the Greek Text; Chapter 2. The Flight from the World and the World of the Pious Empire; 1. Rhetorical Analysis; 1.1. Narratives and Rhetoric of Fleeing from the World: the Dissociation between the Heavenly and the Worldly; 1.2. Narratives and Rhetoric of Empire: Rhetorical Transformation into the "Utopian" and "Reformist" Argumentation; 2. The Rhetoric of Flight from the World and Early Christian Asceticism of the Heart

2.1. Desert Monks' Tradition and the Flight from the World2.2…

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Subjects

Ascetism -- History -- Early church, ca… Church history -- Primitive and early c… Church history -- Primitive and early c… Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église… Femmes dans le christianisme -- Histoir… History Melania,, the Younger, Saint RELIGION -- Christian Church RELIGION -- Christianity Women in Christianity -- Early church Women in Christianity -- History -- Ear…

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Jeon, Kyung-Mee

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