Patricia Cox Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Cox Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Cox |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in imagination and religion
HThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion
Origen and the Witch of Endor: Toward an Iconoclastic Typology
The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome’s Letter to Eustochium
Eustochium, daughter of Jerome’s beloved student and friend Paula, was an adolescent girl who had already dedicated her life to asceticism, and particularly to perpetual virginity. Jerome accomplishes the transformation of Eustochium’s physical body into a metaphorical body by way of tropes from the Song of Songs. Jerome’s choice of the king’s bridal chamber and the enclosed garden as images that articulate Eustochium’s body leads directly to the…
Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy
Relics, Rhetoric, and Mental Spectacles in Late Ancient Christianity
Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first “Europe”, the conference on which the volume is based explored the dominant understanding of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilatin…
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Late ancient studies as a relatively discrete discipline is a recent invention.Only since the 1970s have scholars, who in a previous generation might have identified themselves as classicists, church historians, Roman historians, or patristics scholars, come to identify themselves as scholars of ''late antiquity.''But more has changed than just the name.The methods of analysisboth historiographical and literary-of the period (itself newly delinea…
Is There a Harlot in This Text? Hagiography and the Grotesque
Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism
In an essay entitled "Dim Body, Dazzling Body," Jean-Pierre Vernant argues that for Greeks of the archaic period the human body was conceptualized as a dim version of the dazzling bodies of the gods. The human body was perceived by means of a comparative method in which it could be discerned by "deciphering all the signs that mark the human body with the seal of limitation, deficiency, incompleteness, and that make it a sub-body." Further, "this …
The Little Blue Flower Is Red: Relics and the Poetizing of the Body
Viewing relics from the perspectives of the rhetoric and art in which they were embedded, this essay argues that the transformative process whereby human body-parts became relics was aesthetic. Attentive both to the specter of idolatry and to the danger of a spirituality that negates "matter," late ancient Christians created a religio-aesthetic environment within which the remains of special human beings could be apprehended as relics, that is, a…
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
The devil's gateway: An eros of difference in the dreams of perpetua
Words With an Alien Voice”: Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon
Journal Article “Words With an Alien Voice”: Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon Get access Patricia Cox Miller Patricia Cox Miller Patricia Cox Miller is Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1170. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 459–484, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVII.3.459 Published: …
The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint . Pamela Berger Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia . Ginette Paris , Gwendolyn Moore
All the Words Were Frightful
All the Words Were Frightful: Salvation by Dreams in the Shepherd of Hermas
Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure’ Eros and Language in Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs
Journal Article ‘PLEASURE OF THE TEXT, TEXT OF PLEASURE’ EROS AND LANGUAGE IN ORIGEN'S COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS Get access PATRICIA COX MILLER PATRICIA COX MILLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 241–256, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.2.241 Published: 01 July 1986
A Dubious Twilight: Reflections on Dreams in Patristic Literature
As Wendy O'Flaherty has argued persuasively in her recent book,Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities, it is possible to falsify the hypothesis that one is dreaming-by waking up; but it is not possible to verify that one is awake by falling asleep. The thought that one cannot verify the fact that one is awake but only only falsify the fact that one is asleep (by waking up) delivers something of a jolt to Western "common sense," which typically tak…
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Late ancient studies as a relatively discrete discipline is a recent invention.Only since the 1970s have scholars, who in a previous generation might have identified themselves as classicists, church historians, Roman historians, or patristics scholars, come to identify themselves as scholars of ''late antiquity.''But more has changed than just the name.The methods of analysisboth historiographical and literary-of the period (itself newly delinea…
Is There a Harlot in This Text? Hagiography and the Grotesque
The Little Blue Flower Is Red: Relics and the Poetizing of the Body
Viewing relics from the perspectives of the rhetoric and art in which they were embedded, this essay argues that the transformative process whereby human body-parts became relics was aesthetic. Attentive both to the specter of idolatry and to the danger of a spirituality that negates "matter," late ancient Christians created a religio-aesthetic environment within which the remains of special human beings could be apprehended as relics, that is, a…
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
The devil's gateway: An eros of difference in the dreams of perpetua
Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure’ Eros and Language in Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs
Journal Article ‘PLEASURE OF THE TEXT, TEXT OF PLEASURE’ EROS AND LANGUAGE IN ORIGEN'S COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS Get access PATRICIA COX MILLER PATRICIA COX MILLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 241–256, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.2.241 Published: 01 July 1986
A Dubious Twilight: Reflections on Dreams in Patristic Literature
As Wendy O'Flaherty has argued persuasively in her recent book,Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities, it is possible to falsify the hypothesis that one is dreaming-by waking up; but it is not possible to verify that one is awake by falling asleep. The thought that one cannot verify the fact that one is awake but only only falsify the fact that one is asleep (by waking up) delivers something of a jolt to Western "common sense," which typically tak…
The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint . Pamela Berger Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia . Ginette Paris , Gwendolyn Moore
All the Words Were Frightful
All the Words Were Frightful: Salvation by Dreams in the Shepherd of Hermas
Words With an Alien Voice”: Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon
Journal Article “Words With an Alien Voice”: Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon Get access Patricia Cox Miller Patricia Cox Miller Patricia Cox Miller is Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1170. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 459–484, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVII.3.459 Published: …
The devil's gateway: An eros of difference in the dreams of perpetua
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
The Little Blue Flower Is Red: Relics and the Poetizing of the Body
Viewing relics from the perspectives of the rhetoric and art in which they were embedded, this essay argues that the transformative process whereby human body-parts became relics was aesthetic. Attentive both to the specter of idolatry and to the danger of a spirituality that negates "matter," late ancient Christians created a religio-aesthetic environment within which the remains of special human beings could be apprehended as relics, that is, a…
Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism
In an essay entitled "Dim Body, Dazzling Body," Jean-Pierre Vernant argues that for Greeks of the archaic period the human body was conceptualized as a dim version of the dazzling bodies of the gods. The human body was perceived by means of a comparative method in which it could be discerned by "deciphering all the signs that mark the human body with the seal of limitation, deficiency, incompleteness, and that make it a sub-body." Further, "this …
Is There a Harlot in This Text? Hagiography and the Grotesque
Relics, Rhetoric, and Mental Spectacles in Late Ancient Christianity
Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first “Europe”, the conference on which the volume is based explored the dominant understanding of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilatin…
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Late ancient studies as a relatively discrete discipline is a recent invention.Only since the 1970s have scholars, who in a previous generation might have identified themselves as classicists, church historians, Roman historians, or patristics scholars, come to identify themselves as scholars of ''late antiquity.''But more has changed than just the name.The methods of analysisboth historiographical and literary-of the period (itself newly delinea…
Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy
The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in imagination and religion
HThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion
Origen and the Witch of Endor: Toward an Iconoclastic Typology
The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome’s Letter to Eustochium
Eustochium, daughter of Jerome’s beloved student and friend Paula, was an adolescent girl who had already dedicated her life to asceticism, and particularly to perpetual virginity. Jerome accomplishes the transformation of Eustochium’s physical body into a metaphorical body by way of tropes from the Song of Songs. Jerome’s choice of the king’s bridal chamber and the enclosed garden as images that articulate Eustochium’s body leads directly to the…
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
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