Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
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John Penniman deposited Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoA review of the 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman
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John Penniman deposited Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoA review of the 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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John Penniman deposited “George Steiner” from the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoEncyclopedia Entry
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John Penniman deposited “George Steiner” from the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoEncyclopedia Entry
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John Penniman deposited “George Steiner” from the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Encyclopedia Entry
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Review of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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John Penniman deposited Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
A review of the 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman
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John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Review of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
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John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts of their nature. If eating and drinking initiated the spiritual and physical…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Cyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian t…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited Fed to Perfection: Mother’s Milk, Roman Family Values, and the Transformation of the Soul in Gregory of Nyssa on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Prompted by Michel Foucault’s observation that “salvation is first of all essentially subsistence,” this essay explores Gregory of Nyssa’s discussion of Christian spiritual formation as a kind of salvific and transformative feeding of infants. This article argues that the prominent role of nourishment—and specifically breast milk—in Gregory’s t…[Read more]
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John Penniman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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John Penniman changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
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John Penniman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Merchant Capital, Taxation & Urbanisation. The City of Ani in the Global Long Thirteenth Century in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis article analyses the agency of merchant capital and taxation in processes of urbanisation. The case study is Ani, now abandoned and straddling the Turkish-Armenian border, in the long thirteenth century c.1200-1350. This global-historical conjuncture is defined by the height of the medieval Commercial Revolution and its central Eurasian…[Read more]
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, elitedom and ethnicity: “Armenians” in imperial Bari, c.874–1071 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMelus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in eas…[Read more]
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, elitedom and ethnicity: “Armenians” in imperial Bari, c.874–1071 in the group
Medieval Southern Italy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMelus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in eas…[Read more]
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