Patricia Cox Miller is W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Syracuse University. She is author of Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man and Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture and editor (with Dale B. Martin) of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography.

• IntroductionChapter One: Bodies and SelvesChapter Two: Bodies in FragmentsChapter Three: Dazzling BodiesChapter Four: Bodies and SpectaclesChapter Five: Ambiguous BodiesChapter Six: Subtle BodiesChapter Seven: Animated Bodies and IconsChapter Eight: Saintly Bodies as Image-FleshChapter Nine: Incongruous BodiesConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"The Corporeal Imagination is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and fascinating book. It is important and delightful reading, a skillful interpretation that makes vivid a central problematic on which Christian belief and practice depend, namely, the simultaneous establishment of the nonnegotiable difference of matter and the holy and the perennial urge to bring them as close together as possible, yet without collapsing one into the other."-Journal of Religion"[Cox Miller's] probings are meticulous, provocative, and incisive. To read this book is to have one's own viewing turned inside out."-Theological Studies"A highly original contribution to the history of Christianity as well as to the study of religion. Eloquent and learned, this book offers many new insights and models for reflection. The Corporeal Imagination will appeal to scholars of religion, theologians, historians of late antiquity, and historians of art."-J. Rebecca Lyman, Professor Emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Patricia Cox Miller is W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Syracuse University. She is author of Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man and Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture and editor (with Dale B. Martin) of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography.

• IntroductionChapter One: Bodies and SelvesChapter Two: Bodies in FragmentsChapter Three: Dazzling BodiesChapter Four: Bodies and SpectaclesChapter Five: Ambiguous BodiesChapter Six: Subtle BodiesChapter Seven: Animated Bodies and IconsChapter Eight: Saintly Bodies as Image-FleshChapter Nine: Incongruous BodiesConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"The Corporeal Imagination is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and fascinating book. It is important and delightful reading, a skillful interpretation that makes vivid a central problematic on which Christian belief and practice depend, namely, the simultaneous establishment of the nonnegotiable difference of matter and the holy and the perennial urge to bring them as close together as possible, yet without collapsing one into the other."-Journal of Religion"[Cox Miller's] probings are meticulous, provocative, and incisive. To read this book is to have one's own viewing turned inside out."-Theological Studies"A highly original contribution to the history of Christianity as well as to the study of religion. Eloquent and learned, this book offers many new insights and models for reflection. The Corporeal Imagination will appeal to scholars of religion, theologians, historians of late antiquity, and historians of art."-J. Rebecca Lyman, Professor Emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Patricia Cox Miller is W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Syracuse University. She is author of Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man and Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture and editor (with Dale B. Martin) of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography.

• IntroductionChapter One: Bodies and SelvesChapter Two: Bodies in FragmentsChapter Three: Dazzling BodiesChapter Four: Bodies and SpectaclesChapter Five: Ambiguous BodiesChapter Six: Subtle BodiesChapter Seven: Animated Bodies and IconsChapter Eight: Saintly Bodies as Image-FleshChapter Nine: Incongruous BodiesConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"The Corporeal Imagination is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and fascinating book. It is important and delightful reading, a skillful interpretation that makes vivid a central problematic on which Christian belief and practice depend, namely, the simultaneous establishment of the nonnegotiable difference of matter and the holy and the perennial urge to bring them as close together as possible, yet without collapsing one into the other."-Journal of Religion"[Cox Miller's] probings are meticulous, provocative, and incisive. To read this book is to have one's own viewing turned inside out."-Theological Studies"A highly original contribution to the history of Christianity as well as to the study of religion. Eloquent and learned, this book offers many new insights and models for reflection. The Corporeal Imagination will appeal to scholars of religion, theologians, historians of late antiquity, and historians of art."-J. Rebecca Lyman, Professor Emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific