Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jessica L. Wright is an independent researcher."This book makes two important contributions: it illuminates early Christian engagements with ancient medicine and shows how these medical theories shaped early Christian theological anthropology. Scholars of early Christianity and the history of medicine will find this an engaging read."
CHOICE
"Highly original... [a] beautifully written study of the concept of the brain as a powerful and multi-functional tool."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This is a valuable study, carefully and comprehensively researched, beautifully written and well produced, of importance to many fields including the history of science, psychology, western culture and Christianity. It deserves a wide readership."
THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
"While this book will be of interest to scholars of early Christianity and the history of medicine, the monograph’s implications are more far-reaching."
Reading Religion
"The fusion of ideas about reason and governance in the brain within early Christian thought forms an unexplored but crucial stage in the history of the brain as the putative key to what it means to be human. The book describes how this process unfolded in the images and arguments of early Christian texts from ca. 200 to 600 c.e."
New Testament Abstracts
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Circulation and Performance of Medical Knowledge in Late Antiquity
2. The History of the Brain in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy
3. The Invention of Ventricular Localization
4. The Governing Brain
5. The Rhetoric of Cerebral Vulnerability
6. Insanity, Vainglory, and Phrenitis
7. Humanizing the Brain in Early Christianity
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
“A highly original and impressive piece of work, timely in its topic and methodology and updated on the scholarly status quo in classics, ancient medicine, and philosophy of the body.”—Chiara Thumiger, Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University
“A worthy publication that will find an audience among specialists in both early Christianity and ancient medicine as well as those interested in intellectual history, the history of psychology, and the body.”—Andrew Crislip, Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Christianity