The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity

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The Corporeal Imagination Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series Editors: Daniel Boyarin, Virginia Burrus, Derek Krueger A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. The Corporeal Imagination Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity PA T R I C I A C O X M I L L E R University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright 䉷 2009 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miller, Patricia Cox. The corporeal imagination : signifying the holy in late ancient Christianity / Patricia Cox Miller. p. cm. — (Divinations) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4142-6 (alk. paper) 1. Body, Human—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title. BT741.3.M56 2009 235⬘.2—dc22 2008040923 Epigraph: From Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, ed. Samuel French Morse (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977), 168. The body is the great poem. —Wallace Stevens This page intentionally left blank ...