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Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt: Desert as Borderland

by Peter Anthony Mena

  • Hardback
  • 123 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 1 cm

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For students of early church history and theology

Explores how desert environments shape holy identity

You will better understand the history of asceticism

Explore the fascinating connection between desert spaces and the identity of ancient Christian saints.

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In this book_,_ Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographies-the Life of Antony, the Life of Paul the Hermit, and the Life of Mary of Egypt-in conjunction with Gloria Anzald a's ideas about the US/Mexican borderlands/la frontera, Mena shows readers how descriptions of the desert in these texts are replete with spaces and inhabitants that render the desert a borderland or frontier space in Anzald an terms. As a borderland space, the desert functions as a device for the creation of an emerging identity in late antiquity-the desert ascetic. Simultaneously, the space of the desert is created through the image of the saint. Literary critical, religious studies, and historical methodologies converge in this work in order to illuminate a heuristic tool for interpreting the desert in late antiquity and its importance for the development of desert asceticism. Anzald a's theories help guide a reading especially attuned to the important relationship between space and subjectivity.
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  • Title

    Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt: Desert as Borderland

  • Author

    Peter Anthony Mena

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Palgrave MacMillan

  • Published

    May 2019

  • Weight

    323g

  • Page Count

    123

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9783030173272

  • ISBN-10

    3030173275

  • Eden Code

    4978469

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